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ok¡ Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 50 nh{kkUr lekjksg Hkkjrh; çkS|ksfxdh laLFkku] dkuiqj Board of Governors Prof. Shikha Dixit Chairmen, Board of Governors Humanities & Social Sciences Shri R.C. Bhargava Prof. R.R.K. Sharma Chairman Industrial & Management Engineering SI. No. Name Position Period Prof. Anish Upadhyaya From To Materials Science & Engineering Prof. Indranil Manna 01 Dr. Sampurna Nand, CM, U.P. Chairman, BoG 1959 1960 Director (Ex-officio Member) Prof. Arbind Kumar Lal Mathematics & Statistics 02 Shri C.B. Gupta, C.M., U.P. Chairman, BoG 1960 1965 Prof. P. Balaram Prof. P. Venkitanarayanan 03 Shri Padampat Singhania Chairman, BoG 1965 1971 Prof. J. K Bhattacharjee Mechanical Engineering Prof. Onkar Singh Prof. D. Chowdhury 04 Dr. S. Hussain Zaheer Chairman, BoG 1971 1974 Prof. G. C. Tripathi Physics 05 Dr. M.L. Dhar Chairman, BoG 1975 1978 Shri Krishnamurthi Venkataramanan 06 Shri L.M. Thapar Chairman, BoG 1978 1980 Prof. C.S. Upadhyay Heads of Inter-Disciplinary Programmes Prof. Veejendra K. Yadav 07 Dr. P Venkateswarlu,Director, IITK Officiating Chairman, BoG 1980 1980 Prof. Achla Raina 08 Prof. R.N. Dogra Chairman, BoG 1980 1985 Key Institute Administrators Cognitive Science 09 Dr. A.S. Ganguly Chairman, BoG 1985 1990 Prof. Shantanu Bhattacharya Design 10 Dr. S. Ganguly Chairman, BoG 1990 1993 Prof. Indranil Manna Director & Chairman, Senate Prof. Purnendu Bose 11 Prof. R.C. Malhotra, Director, IITK Officiating Chairman, BoG 1993 1994 Prof. Environmental Engineering & Management 12 Shri Govind Hari Singhania Chairman, BoG 1994 1997 Deputy Director Prof. Rajeev Gupta 13 Shri Hari Shanker Bhartia Chairman, BoG 1997 2003 Prof. Neeraj Misra Materials Science Dean, Academic Affairs Prof. P. Venkitanarayanan 14 Prof. C.N.R. Rao Chairman, BoG 2003 2006 Nuclear Engineering & Technology Prof. K. Muralidhar 15 Prof. M Anandakrishnan Chairman, BoG 2006 2015 Dean, Faculty Affairs Prof. R. Vijaya Prof. Onkar Dikshit Photonics Science and Engineering 16 Prof. Indranil Manna, Director, IITK Officiating Chairman, BoG 2015 2015 Dean, Infrastructure and Planning 17 Shri R C Bhargava Chairman, BoG 2015 to date Prof. S. Ganesh Chairpersons & Conveners of Standing Dean, Research & Development Committees of Senate Prof. B.V. Phani Dean, Resources & Alumni Directors Prof. A.R. Harish Prof. Indranil Manna Dean, Students' Affairs Chairman, Senate Educational Policy Committee Shri K.K. Tiwari Prof. Y.N. Mohapatra SI. No. Name Position Period Registrar and Secretary of Senate & Board of Governors Chairman, Senate Curriculum Development and From To Monitoring Committee 01. Dr. P.K. Kelkar Director 14.12.1959 11.04.1970 Heads of Departments Prof. J.N. Moorthy Convener, Senate Educational Policy Committee 02. Dr. M.S. Muthana Officiating Director 12.04.1970 11.12.1970 Prof. A.K. Ghosh Prof. R.N. Sengupta 03. Dr. M.S. Muthana Director 12.12.1970 23.12.1974 Chairman, Senate Elections Committee Aerospace Engineering 04. Dr. Jagdish Lal Director 24.12.1974 01.05.1976 Prof. D.S. Katti Prof. Indranil Manna Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Chairman, Senate Honorary Degree Committee 05. Dr. A. Bhattacharya Director 02.05.1976 20.01.1980 Prof. V. Shankar Prof. Rajiv Shekhar 06. Dr. P. Venkateswarlu Director 21.01.1980 28.02.1981 Chemical Engineering Chairman, Senate Library Committee 07. Dr. S. Sampath Director 01.03.1981 31.08.1986 Prof. Prof. Suchitra Mathur Chemistry Chairperson, Senate Nominations Committee 08. Dr. A.K. Mallik Director 01.09.1986 21.06.1991 Prof. Achla Raina Prof. Purnendu Bose 09. Dr. M.P. Kapoor Officiating Director 22.06.1991 24.05.1992 Civil Engineering Chairperson, Senate Post-Graduate Committee Prof. Sandeep Shukla Prof. Nitin Kaistha 10. Dr. R.C. Malhotra Director 25.05.1992 30.09.1997 Computer Science & Engineering Chairman, Senate Rules Committee 11. Dr. K.A. Padmanabhan Director 01.10.1997 14.09.2001 Prof. Javed N. Malik Prof. N. N. Nair 12. Dr. Ashwini Kumar Officiating Director 14.09.2001 16.10.2001 Earth Sciences Chairman, Senate Scholarships & Prizes Committee Prof. Joydeep Datta Prof. A. R. Harish 13. Dr. Sanjay G. Dhande Director 16.10.2001 06.11.2012 Chairman, Senate Students' Affairs Committee Economic Sciences 14. Dr. Indranil Manna Director 07.11.2012 to date Prof. S. P. Das Prof. Manoj K. Harbola Electrical Engineering Chairman, Senate Under-Graduate Committee Graduating Students 50th Convocation 2017

EXHORTATION

Remember that your knowledge and intellectual attainment is the most sacred wealth of the nation. You shall therefore, use it in a manner befitting the honour and dignity of your country and of your alma mater. You shall make every effort, in all circumstances, to uphold the dignity of your profession and integrity of your character.You shall endeavour, in every way, through thought, word and action, to bring about the well-being of people. You must live a well-disciplined life. Never forget the commandment of the sacred scriptures:

“Thou shalt perform deeds that are commendable and no others.” DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.)

Aerospace Engineering Rahul Mishra Prof. Ashwani Kumar Thakur Y9218070 (Thesis Supervisor) Controlling the hierarchical levels of polyglutamine D. Saravanan Prof. Debopam Das Y7201061 (Thesis Supervisor) aggregation by different amino acid substitutions. An experimental and numerical investigation of normal, obique and parallel interaction of a Apeksha P Damania Prof. Ashok Kumar compressible vortex ring with a wall. 10118064 (Thesis Supervisor) Bioartificial liver support and tissue engineering strategies for liver regeneration. Chandrala Lakshmana Dora Prof. Debopam Das Y9101062 (Thesis Supervisor) Unsteady evolution of compressible vortex rings: Joyita Sarkar Prof. Ashok Kumar velocity, density and acoustic fields. 10118065 (Thesis Supervisor) Development of cryogel based platform for high throughput screening and analysis . Vivek Pandey Prof. Abhijit Kushari Y9101069 Prof. Ashok De (Thesis Supervisors) Soneya Majumdar Prof. Balaji Prakash Numerical and experimental studies of gas turbine 10118071 Prof. Ashok Kumar combustion. (Thesis Supervisors) Investigating diversity in GTP hydrolysis mechanisms with special emphasis on Rab Gtpases and a ribosome Yesgat Admassu Lakew Prof. R.Kitey binding GTPase EngA. 11101067 Prof. C. S. Upadhyay (Thesis Supervisors) Mechanical and fracture behavior of glass filled epoxy Bais Vaibhav Sushilsingh Prof. Balaji Prakash composites: effect of filler shape, volume fraction and 10118072 Prof. Ashok Kumar temperature. (Thesis Supervisors) Classification, characterization and promiscuity studies of sugar nucleotidylyltransferases family of Aravindh Kumar S M Prof. E. Rathakrishna 12101067 (Thesis Supervisor) enzymes and design of inhibitors against protein Aspect ratio effect on supersonic elliptic jet and its kinases of Mtb. control effectiveness. Chemical Engineering Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Aparna Chaudhary Prof. Sanjeev Garg Richa Maheshwari Prof. K. Subramaniam Y7102061 (Thesis Supervisor) siRNA therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease: an in silico Y8118066 Prof. A.Bandyopadhyay (Thesis Supervisors) and in virtro study . PUF-8, a caenorhabditiselegans translational regular, promotes niche-germline stem cell signalling via the Pradeep Kumar Prof. Ashok Khanna ER protein FARL-11. Y7202067 Prof. Tessy Vincent (Ext.) (Thesis Supervisors) Solvent extraction of heavy metal ions using green Saravanan M Prof. Ashok Kumar solvents. Y8118067 Prof. Balaji Prakash (Thesis Supervisors) Two dimensional diffusion crystallization: a novel Rupesh Singh Prof. Sri Sivakumar methodology to crystallize proteins. Y9202061 Prof. Deepak Kunzru (Thesis Supervisors) Development of nanocatalysts for hydrodesul- Deepak R N V Prof. R. Sankararamakrishnan Y9118064 (Thesis Supervisor) furization reaction. NH...N hydrogen bonds in proteins and biological significance of non-covalent interactions: J. Jaishree Prof. Sri Sivakumar computational studies. Y9502062 (Thesis Supervisor) Nanoparticles encapsulated polymer capsules as bioimaging agent: synthesis, characterization, Singh Pratik Narendra Pratap Prof. A. Bandyopadhyay Y9118068 (Thesis Supervisor) immunological assessment, in vitro and in vivo studies. Molecular basis of articular cartilage development and maintenance by mechanical loading. Debdip Bhandary Prof. Jayant K. Singh 10102062 (Thesis Supervisor) Understanding of self-assembled monolayer using Anshika Goenka Prof. S. Ganesh molecular dynamics simulations. “Talk to yourself at least once in a day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an excellent person in this world.” Y9218063 (Thesis Supervisor) Role of human non-coding satellite –III transcripts in ― Swami Vivekananda cellular stress response.

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Koshal Kishor Prof. Raj Ganesh S Pala Ashok Kumar Baranwal Prof. R P Chhabra Subhomoy Das Prof. M. K. Ghorai Sudhir Kumar Sahoo Prof. Nisanth N. Nair 10102063 (Thesis Supervisor) 11202062 (Thesis Supervisor) Y9107084 (Thesis Supervisor) 10107086 (Thesis Supervisor) Design of electrocatalysts and support for oxygen and Effect of confinement on free convection in non - Domino imino-aldol-aza-michael/ michael-michael Development of CPMD/GULP QM/MM interface for chlorine evolution reactions. newtonian fluids from heated cylinders. reactions: stereoselective syntheses of aza- modeling solids. heterocycles and carbacycles. Ojasvi Prof. Nitin Kaistha Rudra Kumar Prof. Ashutosh Sharma Abhaya Kumar Mishra Prof. J. N. Moorthy 10102065 (Thesis Supervisor) 11202065 Prof. NishithVerma Partha Pratim Das Prof. R. N. Mukherjee 10207061 (Thesis Supervisor) Case studies on design and control for robust (Thesis Supervisors) Y9207076 Prof. M. K. Ghorai IBX-initiated cascade reactions and mechanochemical economic process operation. Carbon-metal oxide composites for energy storage (Thesis Supervisors) catalysis, halogenations and one-pot synthesis of devices and electro-osmotic pumps Transition metal complexes of pyridine/pyrazine amide heterocycles. Shilpi Saxena Prof. R. Ganesh S Pala acyclic and cyclic ligands structures and redox activity. 10102067 Prof. Sri SivaKumar Anoop Kumar Gupta Prof. R P Chhabra Akram Ali Prof. R. N. Mukherjee (Thesis Supervisors) 12102062 (Thesis Supervisor) Abhijit Kayal Prof. A. Chandra 10207062 Prof. M. K.Ghorai Metal nanoparticle encapsulated hollow zeolites as Spheroids in non-newtonian fluids: momentum and 10107061 (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) oxidation catalysts. heat transfer characteristics. Effects of hydrophobic confinement and surfaces on Transition metal complexes of aminophenol-based the structure, dynamics and spectral properties of redox-active ligands : molecular and electronic Yogesh Madhukar Nimdeo Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi Chemistry water through classical and ab initio simulations. structures and reactivity. 10102070 Prof. K. Muralidhar (Thesis Supervisors) Abir Sarbajna Prof. J. K. Bera Anija Mol T Philip Prof. R. Ramapanicker Mass diffusivity of solutions and Sol/gel forming Aditiya Bhattacharyya Prof. M. K. Ghorai 10107062 (Thesis Supervisor) 10207063 (Thesis Supervisor) Y8107061 (Thesis Supervisor) colloidal suspensions. Ring-opening transformation of activated aziridines to Bifunctional catalysts for small molecule activation Asymmetric synthesis of non-canonical amino acids iminothiazolidines, tetrahydropyrimidines, oxime synthetic strategy, catalytic evaluation and and their applications. Debadrita Bhattacharya Prof. Sri Sivakumar amino ethers, and morpholines. mechanistic aspects. 10102072 (Thesis Supervisor) Ashok Kumar P Prof. Y. D. Vankar Investigation on nonclassical growth mechanism of Ashish Singh Prof. R. Gurunath 10207065 Prof. M. K. Ghorai luminescent inorganic nanoparticles. Vivek Gupta Prof. G. Anantharaman 10107064 (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) Y8107096 (Thesis Supervisor) Formamidines as precursors for metal formamidine / Syntheses, crystallographic studies and possible Synthesis of bicyclic azasugars as glycosidase Shilpa Prof. Ashutosh Sharma triazapentadiene complexes and backbone applications of imidazolin-5-one containing inhibitors and gold catalysed O-glycosylations of 10202065 Prof. Nishith Verma compounds. anomeric acetates and sulfoxides as glycosyl donors. (Thesis Supervisors) functionalized imidazolidines / imidazolinium salts synthesis, structure, reactivity and catalytic activity. Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured Balaram Mohapatra Prof. Sandeep verma Gagandeep Kaur Prof. Sandeep Verma materials for Li-ion battery anodes. 10107066 (Thesis Supervisor) 10207067 (Thesis Supervisor) Priyabrata Dasgupta Prof. M. L. N. Rao Structural frameworks and applications of unnatural Ordered peptide-based assemblies as functional Y8207072 (Thesis Supervisor) Mousumi Sinha Prof. Siddhartha Panda fluorescent nucleobases. materials. 11102073 (Thesis Supervisor) Novel palladium-catalyzed synthetic methods using gem-dibromoalkenes. Gas sensing studies of doped polyaniline based Deepak Ojha Prof. A Chandra Parasuraman R Prof. Y. D. Vankar flexible gas sensors. 10107070 (Thesis Supervisor) 10207074 Prof. J. N. Moorthy Akhilesh Shende Prof. M. Ranganathan Theoretical studies of vibrational echo spectroscopy of (Thesis Supervisors) Y9107062 (Thesis Supervisor) Prateek Khare Prof. Nishith Verma Biophysical and bioinformatic studies : (A) Calcium aqueous solutions from first principles simulations. Synthetic studies towards bicyclic azasugars through 11102077 (Thesis Supervisor) Overman rearrangement and annulated sugars using Development of polymer-based nanocomposite in situ dynamic in neuronal cells (B) Clustering of genomic data. Dipankar Mondal Prof. Debabrata Goswami halocyclizations and Prins reaction on carbohydrate functionalized with nanoparticles and carbon 10107071 (Thesis Supervisor) substrates. nanofibers for environmental and energy applications. Application of contactless micromanipulation using Chetan Kumar Arya Prof. R. Gurunath one-and two-color femtosecond optical tweezers. Y9107068 (Thesis Supervisor) Pujari Chandrasekhar Prof. J. N Moorthy Shweta Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi Draft genome sequencing of paracoccus sp. strain 10207075 (Thesis Supervisor) 11102079 (Thesis Supervisor) Krishnandu Makhal Prof. Debabrata Goswami Synthesis and applications of metal-organic Studies on phase behavior and chemical stability of DMF, purification, kinetic and structural 10107072 (Thesis Supervisor) characterization of N, N-dimethyl formamidase. framework (MOFs) constructed from novel organic aqueous suspension of laponite. Third order optical non-linearities and ultrafast linkers featuring concave shapes. dynamics at visible and near IR wavelengths. Bablu Mordina Prof. Ashutosh Sharma Sanchari Pal Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj 11102085 Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi Dhiman Das Prof. D. Goswami Narendra Kumar Mishra Prof. Sandeep Verma 10207078 (Thesis Supervisor) Y9107070 (Thesis Supervisor) Prof. D .K Setua (Ext.) 10107075 (Thesis Supervisor) Coordination polymers:non-covalent interactions, (Thesis Supervisors) Spatiotemporal approaches towards enhancing the Peptide constructs for inhibition of insulin amyloidosis efficiency of laser scanning fluorescence microscopy structural chemistry, photophysical properties and Development and characterization of polymer and as functional materials. synthesis and studies of macrobicyclic cryptands. nanocomposites for magnetorheological, actuator and in condensed phase. microwave absorption applications. Sayantani Saha Prof. J. K. Bera Sourav Biswas Prof. V. Chandrasekhar Nazia Siddiqui Prof. R Gurunath 10107080 (Thesis Supervisor) Y9107075 (Thesis Supervisor) 10207080 Prof. Sandeep Verma Namsani Sadanandam Prof. Jayant K. Singh Organometallic catalysis using mesoionic N- (Thesis Supervisors) 11102086 (Thesis Supervisor) Comformational analysis including stuctures, stability heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands syntheses and and hydrogen bonding of inositols and dipeptides. Compartmental ligand-assisted 3d/4f and 4f molecular Force field development and prediction of thermal catalytic evaluation; organometallic catalysis under assemblies: synthetic approaches towards single- conductivity of nanocomposites. “on water” conditions. molecule magnets.

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Anmol Kumar Prof. S. R. Gadre Brajesh Kumar Prof. Onkar Dikshit Ankita Gangwar Prof. B. Mazhari Soumya Shubhra Nag Prof. S. K. Mishra 11107063 Prof. N. N. Nair 12103016 (Thesis Supervisor) Y9104090 (Thesis Supervisor) 11104180 Prof. A. Joshi (thesis supervisors) Spectral-spatial classification of hyperspectral Creation of electric double layer in thin film transistors (Thesis Supervisors) Molecular electrostatic potential topology for exploring imagery. with charge carriers to achieve low voltage operation. Current-fed switched inverter and its derivatives. lone pairs, lone pair...π interactions and atoms in molecules. Kalyan Yenduri Prof. P. Sensarma Kedar Prakash Kulkarni Prof. Adrish Banerjee Computer Science & Engineering Y9104092 (Thesis Supervisors) 11104185 (Thesis Supervisor) Dynamic analysis and performance improvement of Nabanita Chatterjee Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj Apurba Sarkar Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya Resource allocation and stable throughput tradeoffs in 11107075 (Thesis Supervisor) optimal energy harvesting methods for variable speed Y8211064 Prof. Arindam Biswas (Ext.) cognitive radio networks. Design and synthesis of fluorescent chemosensors : (Thesis Supervisors) wind turbines. live cell imaging and photophysical studies and On some combinatorial algorithms for analysis of Abhishek Kumar Jha Prof. Md. Jaleel Akhtar coordination polymers of transition/lanthanide metal digital objects on isothetic and triangular grids. Viswas S Nair Prof. Utpal Das 11204064 (Thesis Supervisor) lons. Y9104102 (Thesis Supervisor) Advanced resonant sensors for microwave InGaAsP/InP multi-quantum well embedded ring Sujith Thomas Prof. Harish Karnick characterization of materials and their applications. electro-optic or all-optical modulators, filters and B. Raghavender Prof. D. H. Dethe Y9111063 (Thesis Supervisor) switches. 11207066 (Thesis Supervisor) Visual category learning : effect of category entropy, Chandan Yadav Prof. Y. S. Chauhan Synthetic studies towards the natural product tripartin, rule saliency and other variables on category 11204068 (Thesis Supervisor) putative structure of yuremamine and total synthesis generalization. Adarsh Patel Prof. A. K. Jagannatham Compact modeling of capacitance and current in of(±)-mutisianthol. 10104109 (Thesis Supervisor) silicon and III-V transistors. Shubhadip Mitra Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya Robust spectrum sensing for multiple-input multiple- Murhade Ganesh Mangalsing Prof. D. H. Dethe 10111064 (Thesis Supervisor) output (MIMO) cognitive radio networks. Kushmanda Saurav Prof. K. V. Srivastava 11207072 (Thesis Supervisor) Facility location problems for large-scale trajectory- 11204070 (Thesis Supervisor) Total synthesis of merosesquiterpenes, calothrixin b aware services. Devika Kataria Prof. S. S. K. Iyer Studies on multi-band linearly and circularly polarized and development of novel synthetic methods for 10104113 (Thesis Supervisor) printed antennas for wireless communication systems. synthesis of indenes. Diptarka Chakraborty Prof. Manindra Agrawal Enhancement of light absorption in organic solar cell 11211062 Prof. S. Nandakumar active layer in the presence of metal nano-particles. Pragya Kushwaha Prof. Y. S. Chauhan Civil Engineering (Thesis Supervisors) 11204073 (Thesis Supervisor) Derandomization & time-space trade-off in efficient Sevakula Rahul Kumar Krishnaiah Prof. N. K. Verma Modeling of substrate depletion, self-heating, noise Manish Agrawal Prof. Anubha Goel computation. 10104124 (Thesis Supervisor) and high frequency effects in fully depleted SOI 10103067 (Thesis Supervisor) Intelligent hybrid classifiers for real time applications. Determination of source signatures for application of MOSFETs. PSA model to assess contribution of probable sources Earth Sciences Kalamkar Sanket Sanjay Prof. Adrish Banerjee to on-road pollutant load and assessment of potential Desh Deepak Sharma Prof. S. N. Singh 10204065 (Thesis Supervisor) 12104166 (Thesis Supervisor) toxicity of PPAHs on multiple traffic routes in Kanpur Jyoti Chandra Prof. Debajyoti Paul 11203062 (Thesis Supervisor) On cooperation, energy harvesting, and security in Development of distributed control schemes for energy city. The role of mantle plume in the generation of cognitive radio networks. storage systems using distribution system load carbonatites and associated alkaline silicate rocks patterns. Abhishek Chakraborty Prof. Tarun Gupta from Amba Dongar, Gujarat, . Prasun Chongder Prof. A. Biswas 11103161 Prof. S. N Tripathi 10204067 (Thesis Supervisor) Harshit Agarwal Prof. Y. S. Chauhan (Thesis Supervisors) Studies on substrate integrated waveguide based Fog and organic aerosols interactions: sources, Economics Sciences 12104168 (Thesis Supervisor) filters, multiplexers, low phase noise oscillators and composition, and chemistry. Modeling of drain current, transconductance and their application to planar transceiver design. Aarti Gupta Prof. Tanika Chakraborty flicker noise in presence of doping non-uniformity. Srinivasan V Prof. P. Ghosh 12100061 (Thesis Supervisor) 11103167 (Thesis Supervisor) Borrowing & lending behavior of households: A study of Bhupesh Bishnoi Prof. B. Ghosh Abhishek Anchal Prof. Pradeep Kumar K. Uplift response of shallow interfering plate anchors of loan waiver programs in India. 11104166 (Thesis Supervisor) 13104163 (Thesis Supervisor) different shapes in dry sand. Spin and charge transport in nano-scale atomistic Frequency shift free optical phase conjugation and its Electrical Engineering device through semi-classical monte-carlo method applications to coherent optical communications. Vivek B Prof. P. Ray Chowdhury and non-equilibrium green’s function formalism. 11103169 (Thesis Supervisors) Sandeep Kumar Prof. Ketan Rajawat Ashutosh Singh Prof. Y. N. Singh Seismic soil-structure interaction of low to medium-rise Mukesh Kumar Singh Prof. Govind Sharma 13104183 (Thesis Supervisor) Y7104093 (Thesis Supervisor) Non-convex optimization over networks. buildings: experiments and simulations. Algorithms for reliability in large scale structured and 11104173 Prof. Naren Naik unstructured peer-to-peer overlay multicast networks (Thesis Supervisors) Chandan Sarangi Prof. S. N Tripathi for live streaming. SINR and power allocation based relay selection, Humanities and Social Sciences 11203061 (Thesis Supervisor) positioning and reliability for cluster-based wireless Understanding aerosol-surface-cloud-rainfall Anima Majumder Prof. L. Behera sensor networks. Sangeeta Yadav Prof. Kumar Ravi Priya associations within Indian summer monsoon region. 10200065 Prof. Arvind K. Sinha Y8204061 Prof. K. S. Venkatesh (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) Soumava Mukherjee Prof. A. Biswas Thanikella Vijayasri Prof. N. R Patra Development of vision based automatic facial 11104179 (Thesis Supervisor) Exploring mental health among unskilled migrant 11203066 Prof. P. Ray Chowdhury expression recognition systems using machine Studies on performance enhancement of substrate laborers in the urban indian socio-historical context: a (Thesis Supervisors) multiparadigmatic approach. Dynamic characterization of Renusagar pond ash learning algorithms. integrated waveguide based antennas and antenna embankment with and without geotextiles. arrays.

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Industrial & Management Engineering Alka Gupta Prof. Kantesh Balani Materials Science Programme Arun Kumar Prof. Mohua Banerjee Puneet Rai Prof. A. P. Sinha Y9206061 Prof. Shobit Omar Y9108061 (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) A study of algebras and logics of rough sets based on Y7214061 Prof. A. K Sharma Chandresh Kumar Rastogi Prof. Jitendra Kumar classical and generalized approximation spaces. (Thesis Supervisors) Effect of dissolution and composite formation of ceria Y9112061 Prof. Sri Sivakumar Organizational spiritual climate, individual work on the ionic conductivity of Yttria stabilized zirconia. (Thesis Supervisors) orientation and individual spirit at work. Phase stabilization, particle morphology, and Kamaljeet Prof. Dhirendra Bahuguna Anup Kumar Prof. Kantesh Balani photoluminescence studies of lanthanide-doped Y9208061 (Thesis Supervisor) Amandeep Singh Oberoi Prof. Deepu Philip Y9206062 (Thesis Supervisor) inorganic solids for UV sensitized emission. Controllability and monotone iterative technique to the 11114061 (Thesis Supervisor) Effect of carbon nanotubes and aluminum oxide delay fractional evolution equations. Sustainable virtual factory using unit green reinforcement on multifunctional properties of ultrahigh Vishnu Prasad Shrivastava Prof. Jitendra Kumar manufacturing processes. molecular weight polyethylene biocomposites. Y9112064 Prof. Sri Sivakumar Sunil Kumar Prof. B. V. Rathish Kumar (Thesis Supervisors) 10108062 (Thesis Supervisor) Sandeep Kumar Gupta Prof. Uday S. Racherla Finite element and finite volume-complete flux 11114064 (Thesis Supervisor) Materials Science & Engineering Photoluminescence studies of lanthanide ions Sustainability analysis of indian leather industry : A embedded inverse opals and their heterostructures for schemes for singularly perturbed problems. comparative study of three leading states and three Amit Gupta Prof. Rajiv Shekhar colour purification application. leading firms. 10106062 Prof. Biswajit Basu (Ext.) Divya Khurana Prof. Sudipta Dutta 11108062 (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) Narendra Kumar Prof. Siddhartha Panda Subspaces of classical banach spaces and related Deepa Prof. R. R. K. Sharma Hydrodynamic design of drained cathode Hall Héroult 10112061 Prof. Jitendra Kumar 12114062 (Thesis Supervisor) cell. (Thesis Supervisors) topics. Strategic orientation : relation with risk mitigation Sensitivity enhancement aspects in field effect based strategies, decoupling point and human resource Deepa Singh Prof. Deepak Gupta chemical sensors and biosensors. Mechanical Engineering outsourcing. 10106065 Prof. Ashish Garg (Thesis Supervisors) Chhatrasal Shalikram Gayner Prof. Kamal K. Kar SumerBharat Dirbude Prof. A. Kushari Vimal Kumar Prof. R. R. K. Sharma Approaches for improving ferroelectric properties of 10212062 Y7105076 Prof. V. Eswaran(Ext.) 12114065 (Thesis Supervisor) Prof. Malay K. Das P(VDF-TrFE) for flexible memory devices. (Thesis Supervisors) (Thesis Supervisors) Relating critical success factors and culture to strategic Numerical modeling of spray vaporization for non- orientation and leadership for TQM implementation in Understanding the role and interplay of processing premixed flames. Indian firms : developing a theoretical framework and Piyush Sharma Prof. Rajiv Shekhar conditions, structural disorders, dopants (Cu, Ni and its empirical investigation. 10106071 Prof. P. S Ghoshdastidar Al) and nanoinclusions (Graphene) on the Prof. L. Chandra (Ext) thermoelectric properties of PbSe. Ashok Kumar Mandal Prof. Pankaj Wahi Y9105102 (Thesis Supervisor) Dereje Asfaw Prof. Sri Vanamalla V (Thesis Supervisors) 12114066 (Thesis Supervisor) Design of open volumetric air receiver for concentrated Pankaj Chamoli Prof. Kamal K. Kar Vibration characteristics of strings in the presence of a A study of supply chain contracts under asymmetric central solar tower system. 10212063 Prof. Malay K. Das smooth curved boundary obstacle: relevance to information. (Thesis Supervisors) stringed musical instruments. Sunita Mehta Prof. Deepak Gupta Green synthesis of grapheme nanosheets, nitrogen Niraj Kumar Vishvakarma Prof. R. R. K. Sharma 10106074 Prof. Balaji Prakash d o p e d g r a p h e n e n a n o s h e e t s , g r a p h e n e Praveen Throvagunta Prof. M. K. Verma 12214062 (Thesis Supervisor) (Thesis Supervisors) nanocomposite for transparent conducting film. Y9105108 Prof. V. Eswaran (Ext.) Relating a few organizational variables to internet of Development of microbes based three dimensional (Thesis Supervisors) things architectures and RFID & BPR implementation : patterns and their use demonstrated in microlenses, Jayesh Cherusseri Prof. Kamal K Kar Numerical simulations in magnetohydrodynamics developing a theoretical framework and its empirical braille and source-drain of thin film transistors. 11112063 (Thesis Supervisor) validation. Development of high-performance flexible Akhilendra Pratap Singh Prof. A. K. Agarwal Abhinav Varshney Prof. Sandeep Sangal supercapacitors with novel hierarchical carbon 10105129 (Thesis Supervisor) Materials & Metallurgical Engineering Mode switching prototype engine development for low 11106061 Prof. Kallol Mondal nanomaterial (carbon nanotube, carbon nanopetal and Arjun Singh Prof. AshishGarg (Thesis Supervisors) exfoliated graphite nanosheet) and carbon temperature combustion. Y9106062 (Thesis Supervisor) Development of low alloy strong and tough multiphase nanomaterial/polypyrrole nanocomposite electrodes. Investigations on ink-jet printing characteristics of the steels. Laxminarsimharao V. Prof. Sovan Lal Das constituent layers in organic solar cells with normal and 10105138 (Thesis Supervisor) inverted architectures. Ambreen Nisar Prof. Kantesh Balani Mathematics & Statistics Motion and interaction of liquid domains in a two- 12106061 (Thesis Supervisor) dimensional lipid membrane sheet. Rajesh Katoch Prof. AshishGarg Processing and characterization of ZrB2 and TaC Jagabandhu Paul Prof. Akash Anand Y9106065 Prof. Rajeev Gupta based ultra-high temperature ceramic composites for Y7108064 Prof. B. V. Rathish Kumar Manoj Kumar Prof. Prakash M. Dixit (Thesis Supervisors) aerospace applications : effect of SiC and CNT (Thesis Supervisors) 10105139 (Thesis Supervisor) Investigations on BiFeO3-PbTiO3 solid solutions reinforcement. Wave scattering by inhomogeneous obstacles:fast Damage growth law at high temperature, high strain ceramics and thin films of compositions near the high-order numerical solvers. rate and negative triaxiality for impact fracture. morphotropic phase boundary. Fahad Alam Prof. Kantesh Balani 12106065 (Thesis Supervisor) Peeyush Singh Prof. Pravir Dutt Paritosh Mahata Prof. Sovan Lal Das Shailendra Kumar Gupta Prof. Ashish Garg Quantification of adhesion force of staphylococcus 10105142 (Thesis Supervisor) Y9106067 (Thesis Supervisor) Y8108071 Prof. Prawal Sinha aureus on the surface of biomaterials by atomic force (Thesis Supervisors) Mechanics based studies of curvature sensing and Fabrication and characterization of inverted organic generation by proteins in lipid membrane. solar cells, understanding the role of buffer layers, and microscopy Numerical study of elastohydrodynamic lubrication. their degradation analysis.

50th Convocation, 2017 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 6 50th Convocation, 2017 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 7 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.) MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY (M.Tech.)

Patel Chetankumar Pratapbhai Prof. A. K. Agarwal Aerospace Engineering 15101049 Shalendra Nandkishor Potdar 10105143 Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari 12101026 Murali Krishna Dasari 15101050 Shetty Pawan Vasant 14101001 Abhijit Kumar Kushwaha 15101053 Soban Babu B 14101002 Abhinav Sharma 15101054 Subhendu Rana 14101003 Abhishek Singh 15101057 Tribhuwan Prasad Singh 14101004 Abraham Benjamin B 15101060 Vigneshwaran K 14101006 Akhil B Krishna 15101063 Vishvendra Rustagi 14101010 Ankur Bhatnagar 14101013 Arun Kumar Biological Sciences & Bioengineering 14101016 Balaraman P 14118003 Aditi Kumar 14101017 Bharat Bhatia 14118006 Baba Yogesh 14101018 Bharathi Kannan R 14118007 Charu Gupta 14101019 Boju Nishanth 14118011 Meenal Srivastava 14101021 Chennapragada Sridhar 14118012 Monika Sharma 14101023 Deepthy Gladston 14118014 Pooja P Chaukimath 14101024 Dinesh Koya Nelamuru 14118015 Pritish Ranjan 14101026 Gaurav Kejriwal 14118017 Saurabh Singh Parihar 14101027 Geetanjali 14118018 Shashank Kumar Sonker 14101028 Gokulakrishnan S 15118001 Iyer Abhishek Hariharan Jayanthi 14101029 Gowthaman N 14101033 Krishna Arjun Bharadwaj Chemical Engineering 14101036 Mamidala Santhosh Babu 13102009 Deepak Kumar 14101037 Mohamed Aniffa S 14102008 Anjali Soni 14101038 Mohd Jameel Uddin 14102017 Harishyam 14101039 Naspoori Srujankumar 14102030 Puneet Kumar 14101040 Nitin Thomas Murugan 14102042 Shally Gupta 14101041 Prakash Chouhan 14102045 Swati Sahu 14101042 Pramin Pradeep 14102048 Vinod Kumar Jaiswar 14101043 Praneet V 15102014 Jagnade Sujit Anandrao 14101044 Naresh Kumar R 15102026 Velagala Vijay Kumar Naidu 14101046 Rishi Kumar 14101050 Shreyas Joshi Civil Engineering 14101056 Swetha Prakash 13103001 A K Jaisal 14101059 Vechalapu Tulasi Ram 13103054 Saurabh Shah 14101061 Vinodhini C 14103001 Aakash Gupta 14101064 Praveen N Donni 14103004 Alok Mohanty 14101065 Ravindra Agarwal 14103006 Amita Aggerwal 15101002 Abhilash Shivkumar Kshtriya 14103007 Anisha Narendran 15101006 Ahilan A 14103010 Kurmi Ankur Durga Prasad 15101011 B Sai Tharun 14103016 Debasish Jana 15101015 Faisal M M 14103020 Haseeb Muhammad 15101020 Jangala Ramesh Babu 14103026 Mainak Das 15101021 Kathiresan K 14103029 Mitul Sisodiya 15101028 Lingesh V 14103031 Nitin Bansal 15101033 Mayank Verma 14103032 Pankaj Kumar Upadhya 15101041 Purohit Deval Mahesh 14103033 Parvinder Singh Saini 15101048 Satyajit Sanjoy De 14103038 Ravichandra R Deshpande

50th Convocation, 2017 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 8 50th Convocation, 2017 Master of Technology (M.Tech.) 9 MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY (M.Tech.) MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY (M.Tech.)

14103039 Rahul Rao Siddharth 15111027 Prabuddha Chakraborty 14104068 Maguluri Avinash 14104190 Wankhade Saket Onkar 14103040 Sadbodh Sharma 15111030 Priyank Agarwal 14104071 Mamta Singh 14104283 Varsha Shukla 14103045 Sonam 15111033 Rakshit Sharma 14104072 Mane Ruturaj Mandip 15104006 Ingle Anoop Atish 14103047 Suchismita Subhadarsini 15111034 Richa Singh 14104073 Manish Badwani 15104008 Ashutosh Yadav 14103049 Tathagata Bhaduri 15111036 Ritika 14104077 Mohit Vohra 15104022 Krati 15103022 Mir Faizan Ul Haq 15111038 Rohit Sehgal 14104078 Mondeep Saikia 15104039 Ponnada Appala Naidu 15103024 Piyush Kumar 15111046 Vijay Pal Jat 14104079 Monika Singh 15104050 Shaik Jany Bhasha 15103029 Rahul Singh 14104080 Moumita Das 15104052 Shukla Santosh Rammurti Meera 15103042 Swathy J Prakash Earth Sciences 14104081 Mradula Singh 15104053 Somashekar Swamy N 15103044 Vaishakh T K 14123002 Abhinav Uniyal 14104082 Mruthyunjaya 15103046 Vaqas Hussain Sheikh 14123006 Aqib Jamal Ansari 14104084 Mukesh Kumar Environmental Engineering & Management 14123009 Chandrasekaran R 14104085 Nadim Ahmed 14117006 Anurag Yadav Computer Science & Engineering 14123011 Sarwar Nizam 14104090 Naveen Gupta 14117009 Bhuvana Joshi 13111054 Shivmaran S 14123013 Sudhakar Ranjan 14104093 Neha Hakla 14117011 Deepak Tiwari 13111057 Sayantan Marik 15123002 Beno J Jacob 14104094 Nelluri Rama Krishna 14117014 Kuntamukkala Pavan Kumar 13111058 Shailender Dabas 15123004 Eshaan Srivastava 14104097 Nitesh Kumar Jha 14117016 Minerva Raj 13111061 Soumya Roy 15123008 Pathak Devanshi Paresh 14104100 Nune Rajender 14117018 Nitendra Singh 14111001 Aashna Anand 15123011 Shankho Niyogi 14104106 Panchajanya Sanyal 14117019 Nitesh Patil 14111002 Maharana Abhishek H Manjula 14104111 P Naga Lokesh 14117020 Pathade Piyusha Shrikant 14111004 Anoop Singh Rawat Electrical Engineering 14104112 Peramsetty Sreenadh 14117021 Pragyanand Paliha 14104113 Peri Roja 14111007 Banothu Raj Kumar 13104102 Prashant Bharti 14117023 Ratnesh Kumar 14104115 Prachi Bansal 14111009 Dodiya Hardik Rajendrakumar 14104001 Amit Kumar Roy 14117026 Shivanuj Shukla 14104117 Prashant Kumar Varshney 14111013 Girish Kumar 14104005 Addepalli Mohana Giridhar 14117029 Vishakha Nimesh 14104119 Praveen Kumar Nair 14111016 Jagan Singh Choudhari 14104008 Ajay James Thomas 15117007 Biplab Kumar Mahata 14104122 Ritesh Kumar Pandey 14111018 Vende Manoj Dagadu 14104009 Ajay Kumar Singh 15117008 Sorathia Fena Mohanbhai 14104126 Rahul Shaw 14111025 Rahul Bera 14104018 Anwesha Mukhopadhyay 14104128 Samant Raj Nayan 14111027 Rahul Kumar Patidar 14104023 Ashish Kumar Industrial & Management Engineering 14104129 Rajesh Bhat 14111028 Rajat Kumar Verma 14104026 Bikram Singh Kunwar 14114001 Akash Sharma 14104130 Ramanuja Panigrahi 14111029 Rishabh Dev Shukla 14104027 Bandarupalli Jayadeepthi 14114031 Prakash P 14104131 Ramesh Angoth 14111032 Sawan Kumar Rauniyar 14104031 Boyina Sri Syamalaraju 14114032 Thomas Wilfred D Mello 14104132 Ranjeet Singh 14111033 Sharin K G 14104034 Chinmay Manoharrao Shinde 15114001 Abhishek Poddar 14104133 Ravi Kumar Verma 14111038 Verma 14104035 Davuluri Sai Prasanth 15114005 Divyanshu Kumar 14104134 Rayapudi Ajay Kumar 14111040 Tarun Kumar Bhargava 14104036 Dheeraj Kumar C 15114008 Kalpana Singh 14104145 Santosh Kumar 14111042 Umashankar Lahre 14104037 Dinesh Dwivedi 15114011 Nilanjan Das Khan 14104150 Saurav Roy Choudhury 14111043 Gangireddy Venu Gopal Reddy 14104038 Ekta Sharma 15114012 Prashant Kumar Garg 14104154 Shailendra Pratap Singh 14111044 Vikrant Kumar Mahriya 14104040 Gaurav Sunilrao Nandode 15114013 Prince Kumar Tiwari 14104155 Shalini Dey 14111045 Vinit Tiwari 14104041 Gohel Ankitkumar Chhotubhai 15114014 Rodrigues Rohan Hermith 14104157 Shashank Giri 14111049 Jasneet Singh Kalra 14104042 Gopi Chakravarthy 15114018 Subha Lakshmi Baranwal 14104158 Sheetanshu Mishra 14111050 Ganesh Kannan K 14104048 Harshit Kumar 15114020 Tanvi Keswani 14104162 Soham Chatterjee 14111051 M A Jaffer Ali 14104050 Himani 14104164 Sonam Acharya 14111052 Yatish Chaturvedi 14104053 Jampu Bharani Bharadwaj Materials Science & Engineering 15111002 Abhilash Tekchand Gaure 14104169 Suman Mandal 14104055 K Lakshmi Sravya 14106008 Divya Janani P 15111004 Aishwarya Gupta 14104172 Supratik Sikder 14104057 Karishma 14106009 Farhan Mirza 15111015 Devendra Kumar Luna 14104173 Sushil Kesharwani 14104059 Khatri Ravi 14106011 Lipsa Das 15111017 Gangurde Mayuri Laxman 14104183 Vighnesh S Bhat 14104060 Khirod Kumar Nayak 14106014 Pinku Roy 15111021 Krishnaprasad P 14104184 Vikas Patidar 14104063 Kusum Kalyani 14106016 Pritam Dey 15111024 Majithia Nishit Mahendrabhai 14104189 Vivek Kumar Patwey 14104066 Lanka Mahesh 14106019 Sayli Jambhulkar

50th Convocation, 2017 Master of Technology (M.Tech.) 10 50th Convocation, 2017 Master of Technology (M.Tech.) 11 MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY (M.Tech.) B.Tech. – M.Tech. (Dual Degree)

14106025 Venkatesh V 14105055 Prachi Dixit B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering - B.Tech Chemical Engineering - 14106026 Vikrant Kumar Beura 14105066 Ritwik Bandyopadhyay M.Tech. Aerospcace Engineering M.Tech. Chemical Engineering 14106027 Vipin Nanda 14105078 Shubhi Katiyar 10327449 Nikhil Kumar 14106030 Govindakrishnan U 14105085 Gaikwad Sujit Sanjay 11907074 Amandeep Gupta 11907028 Abhishek Kumar Shastry 15106011 Shashwat Singh 14105091 Vinay Kumar 11907121 Anmol Awasthi 11907043 Aileni Manideep 14105093 Vishal Kumar 11907305 Himanshu Jaiswal 11907051 Akash Gupta 14105094 Wangaskar Bhimashankar Devling 11907323 Ishan Prashant Materials Science 11907176 Ayalasomayajula Surya Mitra 14105097 Abhipraya Tiwari 11907419 Meena Atulkumar Indrakumar 14112003 Anmol Jauhari 11907317 Indra Kanshana 11907432 Mohit Mittal 14112004 Archana Tiwari 14105108 Arihant Jain 11907430 Mohit Kumar 11907634 Sandeep Charan 14112006 Bisal K B 14105109 Arunjyoti Sinha Roy 11907512 Pranav Malviya 11907676 Shashank Yadav 14112007 Dipti Sharma 14105119 Pappuri Hazarathaiah 11907550 R Anvesh 11907737 Sumit Chaudhary 14112008 Jitendra Singh 14105130 Ravinder Kumar 11907589 Ravi Jaiswal 11907812 Vishal Heliwal 14112010 Manisha Dutt 14105139 Soumyabrata Maiti 12807074 Akshay Ranjan 12807236 Devendra Verma 14105152 Rajdeep Bhattacharjee 12807217 Chipade Vishnu Samadhan 14112011 Mayank Pal 12807277 Gurjyot Singh Sethi 14205001 Ashish Kumar Mishra 12807647 Mit Mahendra Shah 14112012 Moitri Sutradhar 12807506 Prasoon Srivastava 14205002 Ashutosh Rai 14112015 Picon Pal 12807556 Ramanish Singh 14205003 Gundavarapu V L Parameswari 14112016 Prakrati Azad B.Tech.Biological Sciences & Bioengineering - 12807643 Saurav Yadav 14205004 Kuldeep Yadav 14112020 Robin Rathaur M.Tech. Biological Sciences & Bioengineering 12807662 Shashank Kamdar 14112022 Samir Pattanayek 14205006 Priya Gupta 12807675 Shivam Sahu 11907220 Chetan Singh Lodhi 14112023 Sanju Samanta 14205007 Rahul Kishore 12807815 Vipul Garg 11907591 Sharma 14112026 Sahu Shreyasi Rajmohan 14205008 Shubhra Saxena 14112029 Suman Kanti Bhattacharjee 15105007 Ankit Verma B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering - B.Tech. Civil Engineering - 14112030 Suyash Varshney 15105015 Divyanshu Bhardwaj M.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering M.Tech. Civil Engineering 15112006 Gowthaman S 15105048 Rupesh Kumar Sinha 15105049 Sachin Y9227375 Nikhil Samdaria 10428133 Anurag Gautam Mechanical Engineering 11907002 Aaditya Verma 10510569 Rajat Jain Y9105028 Indra Bhushan Kumar Nuclear Engineering & Technology 11907009 Abhay Malviya 11907097 Aniruddha Zalani 13105088 Sonu Anand 14115003 Abhishekh Kumar 11907063 Alok Raj 11907244 Devendra Mandan 14105001 Arindam Shekhar Chaudhury 15115003 Ravi Ankit Purty 11907075 Amanpreet Singh 11907299 Harshvardhan Sharma 11907322 Ishan Darolia 14105007 Alok Kumar 11907177 Ayush Aggarwal 11907431 Mohit Kumar Garg 14105017 Arun Kumar Photonics Science & Engineering 11907435 Mohit Shukla 11907549 Reid Rizvi Rahman 14105020 Avinash Kumar Dehariya 14116001 Akash Pandey 11907449 Namit Mittal 11907620 S Sai Krishna Prasad 14105021 Bhoj Kumar Patel 14116002 Akash Sureshshankar Dixit 11907469 Nishant Singh 11907674 Sharun Emmanuel Shaju 14105027 Dhirendra Pratap Singh 14116003 Arya Alphonsa Boban 11907588 Ravi Choudhary 11907657 Sarvesh Kumar Yadav 11907710 Shujaat Ishaq 14105030 Ghodake P Ramchandra Sakharubai 14116004 Gaurav Sharma 11907695 Shrey Agarwal 11907739 Sumit Kumar 14105031 Gopinath Sahu 14116005 Madduri Suresh 11907792 Varun Tomar 12807375 Kundan Kumar 14105035 Harsh 14116006 Mane Onkar Balasaheb 12807069 Akshay Dubey 12807545 Rajat Kumar Panda 14105036 H R Lohit Kumar 14116008 Rabindra Biswas 12807070 Akshay Kaplesh 14105044 Krishn Chandra 14116011 Shikha Ahirwar 12807257 Gaikar Kshitij Suresh B.Tech. Electrical Engineering - 14105047 Mohit Gogna 15116001 Chanchal 12807346 Kartik Jain M.Tech. Electrical Engineering 14105048 Namit Pandey 15116003 Lokendra Singh Dangi 12807418 Mohit Singh Chauhan 14105052 Nikhil Bajpai 15116007 Sidharth Maurya 12807442 Niket Kumar 10327085 Anagani Prudhvi Sagar 12807457 Novnit Kashyap 10327530 Prenit V Wankhedeee 12807583 Robinson Guria 10327665 Shanu Yogi 11907021 Abhishek

50th Convocation, 2017 Master of Technology (M.Tech.) 1412 50th Convocation, 2017 B.Tech. – M.Tech. (Dual Degree) 13 B.Tech. – M.Tech. (Dual Degree) B.Tech. – M.S. (Dual Degree)

11907140 Anurag Prabhakar 11907698 Shreyansh Singh B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering - 11907150 Arpit Jangid 11907778 Utkarsh Deep M.S. Economics 11907324 Ishendra Agarwal 12807134 Anshul Yadav 12816477 11907420 Meenakshi Khosla 12807139 Anuj Kumar Rai 11907444 Musirike I Kiran Reddy 12807280 Hardik Soni PIYUSH AWASTHI 11907558 Rahul Agrawal 12807303 Hitesh Jangid 11907569 Rahul Sankhwar 12807422 Mridul Bharadwaj 11907597 Rishabh Gupta 12807436 Navneet Singh B.Tech. Civil Engineering - 11907655 Sarthak Jain 12807561 Raunak Raj M.S. Mathematics & Scientific Computing 11907829 Yash Shahi 12807568 Ravi Raj 12807049 Aditya Raj 12807620 Sanjay Raghav Balaga 12816599 12807124 Ankit Pensia 12807698 Shubham Kumar SAFDAR AHMAD WANI 12807147 Anurendra Kumar 12807719 Siddharth Tripathi 12807315 Jatin Vikram Singh 12807753 Tankala Srikanth 12807460 P Nandha Kumar 12807810 Vineet Anand 12807541 Rahul Sharma 12807819 Virendra Patel B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering - 12807557 Ramavtar Malav 12807829 Vivek Chawda M.S. Economics 12807581 Ritvik Srivastava 12816309 12807736 Suman Kumar B.Tech. Materials Science & Engineering - JANTRE SANKET RAJENDRA 12807804 Vikrant Kumar M.Tech. Materials Science & Engineering

B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering - 11907112 Ankit Nagar M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering 11907325 J Jayashankar B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering - 11907398 Maitrey Verma M.S. Physics Y9227245 Harshit Gangwar 11907474 Nitin Tandekar 11916551 10327083 Amrit Abhilash 11907577 Rajesh Kumar R PURNALINGAM 10327160 Ashok J 11907585 Randhir Kumar Parashar 10327721 Sohil Bansal 11907601 Rishikesh Mishra 11907001 A Naga Sai Karthik Krishna 11907611 Rohan Sharma 11907022 Abhishek Attal 11907637 Sandeep Kumar Gupta B.Tech. Materials Science & Engineering - 11907106 Ankit Kumar Gautam 11907648 Sanu Kumar Gupta M.S. Economics 11907135 Anurag Kumar Bhatt 12807114 Anil Kumar 12816774 11907238 Deepankar Singh 12807273 Gidla. Mani Ratnam 11907250 Dhrupal R Shah 12807341 Kapil Kumar Verma UTSAV SADANA 11907267 Gagan Agrawal 12807645 Semanti Mukhopadhyay 11907272 Gaurav Gupta 11907310 Hitendra Kumar 11907313 Hrashikesh Nagesh Kulkarni B.Tech. Biological Sciences & Bio Engineering- 11907336 Jayant M.Tech. Industrial Management & Engineering 11907358 Karupothula Prashanth 11907566 Rahul Pisharody 11907406 Manish Yadav 11907586 Rasool Ahmad

50th Convocation, 2017 B.Tech. – M.Tech. (Dual Degree) 14 50th Convocation, 2017 B.Tech. – M.S. (Dual Degree) 15 B.S. – M.S. (Dual Degree) MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (M.B.A.)

B.S. Chemistry- B.S. Mathematics & Scientific Computing- 15125002 Abhas Vyas 15125023 Meenal Gupta 15125003 Abhilash Chandra 15125024 Mohit Yadav M.S. Chemistry M.S. Mathematics & Scientific Computing 15125006 Aman Agarwal 15125026 Nitin Rawat 11917241 Naraniya 12817012 Abheet Aggarwal 15125008 Arka Goswami 15125027 Pallavi Lohia 11917828 Yash Mittal 12817047 Aditya Parmar 15125009 Arpit Jain 15125028 Parmanand Nagdev 12817251 Eerlapally Raju 12817063 Akash Gupta 15125010 Arunangshu Ray 15125031 Saikat Chatterjee 12817322 Jayashrita Debnath 12817143 Anupreet Porwal 15125011 Bhavna Uttamchandani 15125032 Sapna Tuteja 12817400 Manju Yadav 12817146 Anurag Sharma 15125012 Deepti Sekhri 15125033 Shreyansh Singh 15125013 Gaurav Dawrani 15125034 Shubham Gour 12817421 Mondivagu Nanda Kishor 12817167 Ashish Jain 15125014 Gaurav Shah 15125035 Sofia Sunny Thomas 12817779 V Raju 12817180 Avinash Anand 15125016 Himanshu Negi 15125036 Somya Goel 12817232 Deepanshu Gupta 15125017 Ishaan Singh 15125037 Soumya B.S. Economics- 12817249 Divyanshu Rai 15125018 K Prakash Raju 15125038 Sourav Ghosh M.S. Economics 12817284 15125019 Kartik Bajaj 15125039 Utkarsh Maurya 11917068 Aman Inder Singh 12817293 Harshwardhan Solanki 15125020 Kinsuk Ghatak 15125041 Vibhu Upadhyay 15125021 Kumar Shashwat 15125043 Vikas Kumar Sinha 12817407 Md Enayat Ullah 11917632 Sameer Garg 15125022 Manpreet Singh 12817033 Abhishek Srivastava 12817451 Niraj Kumar 12817081 Alok Ranjan 12817482 Piyush Singla 12817095 Amit 12817521 Puja Kumari MASTER OF DESIGN (M.Des.) 12817097 Amit Kumar 12817559 Ranjan Kumar 13119037 Rohit Kumar Singh 14119024 Shweta Gautam 12817115 Anirudh Makwana 12817612 Sandeep Kumar Begad 14119001 Abhijeet 14119027 Sufiyan Ahmed 12817162 Arushi Jain 12817670 Shiva Garg 14119002 Aditya Singh Bisht 15119001 Akshita Rastogi 12817674 Shivam Khandelwal 14119003 Ankit Belchandan 15119002 Amal Sudheendran Kumar 12817266 Gaurav Doshi 14119005 Ashwin Gandhi 15119005 Athira S 12817292 Harshvardhan Singh Rathore 12817724 Sonu Anamika 14119006 Haripada Soren 15119010 Madhan Raj M A 12817326 Jitendra Singh 12817744 Susmitha Srinidhi B 14119007 Joseph Jayadev Ts 15119012 Pratiti Sarkar 12817328 Johnson Kujur 12817760 Tathagat Gupta 14119008 Kirit Lakhani 15119015 S A Raj 12817363 Kritika Awasthi 12817836 Zahid Sharief 14119009 Kriti Dalmia 15119016 Shalab 12817371 Kumar Prem Arjun 14119010 M Kirti Kalyan 15119017 Shashank Kumar Arya 14119012 Nelapudi Pritam 15119018 Surojit Dey 12817392 Mahendra Kumar Singh B.S. Physics- 14119021 Saurabh Anand 15119019 Vimal C 12817402 Manoj Maharia M.S. Physics 12817408 Mendraguthi Surya Prakash 12817330 Jyotsna Sharma 12817449 Nilay Jain 12817340 Kapil Krishna Gupta VISIONARY LEADERSHIP FOR 12817465 Parakram Singh 12817415 Mohd Zubair Khan MANUFACTURING PROGRAMME (PGPEX-VLFM)* 12817504 Prashant Kumar 12817490 Surya Devara Praharsh 16126001 Abhijit Baliga 16126021 Nishant Kumar 12817555 Ram Singh 12817632 Satish Nande 16126002 Ajit Singh 16126022 Priyanka 12817566 Ravi Prakash 12817693 Shubham Grover 16126003 Akshay Purwar 16126023 Purushothaman R 12817593 Rushil Dogra 16126004 Amrita Saha 16126024 Rahul Bhardwaj 12817697 Shubham Karmawat 16126005 Ananda Dutta 16126025 Ritesh Ranjan 12817791 Vibhor Vats 16126006 Anandbabu R 16126026 Ritu Agarwal 12917746 Suyash Garg 16126007 Apurba 16126027 Sai Sharan Panda 16126008 Bidyut Pathak 16126028 Sandip Kumar Jain 16126009 E Ravi Shankar 16126029 Sangam Chaturvedi 16126010 Gaurav Prakash 16126030 Satyavrat Sopori 16126011 Geetanjali Babbar 16126031 Shishir Kumar Singh B.S. – MBA (Dual Degree) 16126012 Gnana Veera Rajan V 16126032 Soumya Dash 16126013 Indrajeet 16126033 Subrata Kumar Mahanty 16126014 Khalid Mustafa 16126034 Sumalya Saha B.S. Chemistry - MBA 16126015 Kuldeepak Mahto 16126035 Suman Agrawal 12820443 16126016 Kumar Rishav 16126036 Swagatam Mitra 16126017 Madhu Prasath S 16126037 Varun Kumar NIKHIL KUMAR KEDIA 16126018 Manas Vyas 16126038 Venkata Vishnu Vihari Immadisetty 16126019 Manojit Basak 16126039 Vishal Yadav 16126020 Nachiappan M 16126040 Vivek Dwivedi * This is one year Post Graduate Program for Executives and is jointly run by three Institutes – IIM Calcutta, IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras. The Candidates, this year, will be convocated at IIM Calcutta.

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Chemistry 151046 Dhiraj Patel Statistics 151101 Nirnay Pratap Singh 151048 Jyoti Yadav 151102 Pranay Tarafdar 151001 Abhishek Banerjee 151053 Manju 14927 Chandra Bhan Yadav 151105 Ranit Kumar Karmakar 151002 Ajay Kumar Prajapati 151054 Manoj Kumar 14928 Devadatta Maiti 151106 Ravi Shankar Maurya 151003 Alexy Uditta Kachhap 151055 Md Adud 14940 Pratibha Yadav 151109 Sandhya Yadav 151004 Ananda Barui 151056 Monika 14946 Saikat Kundu 151110 Satarupa Bhattacharjee 151005 Anil Kumar Singh 151058 Niranjan 14955 Upamanyu Chakravarty 151112 Shantanu Dixit 151006 Anirban Misra 151060 Patel Praharsh 151083 Amit Kumar 151114 Smriti Yogindran 151007 Arpna Jaryal 151061 Pintu Paul 151085 Anirban Mitra 151115 Snigdha Yogindran 151008 Ashis Das 151062 Piyasa Sarkar 151086 Anurag Dey 151116 Soham Mazumdar 151009 Badal Mondal 151063 Prasun Roychowdhury 151090 Debanjana Banerjee 151120 Soumya Das 151010 Bivas Mondal 151066 Rajesh Kumar Rai 151091 Deepak Singh 151121 Soumyadeep Rakshit 151012 Deepshekhar Kumar 151067 Ratul Sau 151092 Gaurav Chaudhary 151122 Srijan Hazra 151013 Golokesh Santra 151069 Rishabh Agnihotri 151094 Jay Prakash Singh Patel 151125 Sugata Ghosh 151014 Gourab Kundu 151070 Sandeep Kumar 151096 Kritika Verma 151127 Surbhi Kumari More 151015 Kousik Biswas 151072 Shambhu Nath Maurya 151097 Madhurima Halder 151128 Vikash Ranjan Singh 151016 Kritanjan Polley 151074 Shiva Kandpal 151098 Mimisha 151130 Youktinath Bhowmick 151019 Nisha 151075 Siddharth.b.jain 151099 Mridul Kanti Das 151020 Nishith Maity 151076 Souvik Gayen 151021 Nityananda Pal 151078 Sudipta Mukherjee 151022 Pradip Si 151079 Suneel Kumar 151023 Sabyasachi Maity 151080 Vivek Kumar Yadav MASTER OF SCIENCE Degree under MS-PD (Dual Degree) 151024 Sachin Verma 151025 Sarajit Naskar Physics 11977 Kalyani Barman 14980 Sagar Paul 151026 Sayan Paul 14963 Ashabari Mujumdar 14982 Sana Afrin 151027 Sayantan Mahapatra 11967 Chitrasen Singh 14969 Deep Shikha Verma 14989 Subhadeep Sadhukhan 151028 Shayantani Ash 14995 Ujjal Saren 14971 Garima Bawa 14994 Sudip Malick 151029 Shobhan Mondal 151132 Apu Kumar Jana 14972 Krishnendu Dandapat 14996 Venus Rai 151030 Shubhadip Mallick 151133 Apurba Karmakar 151031 Shubhankar Mondal 151134 Ashis Kumar Paul 151032 Sohom Kundu 151135 Ashwani Kumar 151033 Srijana Barui 151136 Bhuvnesh 151034 Subhankar Debnath 151137 Bishnu Das MASTER OF SCIENCE (5-Year Integrated) 151035 Subhankar Mondal 151138 Debasmita Giri 151036 Sukanta Shil 151139 Deep Bhandari Chemistry 151037 Sumon Sarkar 151140 Diwakar 151038 Tamal Some 151143 Mahendra Singh 10135 ANURAG KUMAR 151039 Uchchhal Bandyopadhyay 151145 Manika Singla 151147 Niladri Sekhar Kander Mathematics & Scientific Computing Mathematics 151148 Prashant Singh Y8014 ABHISHEK 151149 Pratik Nandy 13918 Vivek Kumar 151150 Puspendu Hazra 14879 Ajay Kumar 151151 Ritankar Chatterjee 14880 Aman Kumar 151152 Soummyadip Basak 14889 Indra Bate 151153 Sourav Bhattacharjee 14907 Shubham Singh 151154 Sourav Biswas 14912 Sunil Kumar Maurya 151155 Souvik Bandyopadhyay 151042 Aneek Maiti 151157 Sudipta Dutta 151043 Apurva Seth 151158 Suman Kundu 151044 Arnab Bhabak 151159 Uttaran Dutta 151045 Ayan Halder 151160 Venkata Lokesh Kumar Y

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Aerospace Engineering 13530 Rahul Garg 13721 Sunil Kumar 13430 Nicku Nitish 13580 Ritika Pushkar 13738 Tade Shreyash Shriram 13467 Pavan Kumar Agrawal 10256 G Vineel 13636 Saurya Man Patel 13740 Tanya Batra 10340 Karanvir Singh 13725 Suniti Meena 13762 Vaibhav Vaidya 12194 Bhagyesh Ghagi 13791 Vikash Choudhary 13769 Vardaan Bhatia 12201 Bodasingi Kartheek 13785 Vijeta 12239 Dharmendra Patel Chemical Engineering 13798 Vishal Jindal 12335 Kale Abhishek Pradeep 13799 Vishal Kumar 12621 Sankit Saini 12171 Ashish Sharma 12629 12269 Gaurav Sahai Civil Engineering 13002 Aadil Hayat 12318 Jay Mangal 13014 Abhay Gaulechha 12320 Jay Prakash Mahawar 10233 Devesh Prakash 13057 Ajay Yadav 12350 Keertay Agarwal 11240 Deepanshu Kumawat 13060 Akarsh Jain 12380 Lekhraj Kushwaha 11300 Hemant Ghusinga 13191 Bablu Bhoi 12491 Prakash Besra 11730 Suban Kumar Mishra 13282 Govind Khatik 12644 Sawan Singh Kalesh 12046 Aditya Parashr 13283 Hardik Parwana 12653 Shalendra Kumar 12065 Akash Kumar Jaiswal 13371 Kush Singh 12657 Shanu Vashishtha 12100 Amit Prabhat 13394 Mausumi Mohanta 12817 Virendra Kumar 12175 Atul Ranjan 13468 Pawan Kumar 13032 Abhishek Kumar Tiwari 12211 Harsh Chauhan 13522 R Archith 13042 Aditya 12285 Harsh Singal 13571 Rishabh Gupta 13088 Amartya Ghosh 12333 Kailash Chand Meena 13609 Samvit Kumar 13123 Ankur Jain 12369 Kumar Kanishka 13682 Shubham Jain 13131 Anshuman Pandey 12396 Mani Singh Rathore 13733 Sushil Kumar 13134 Anupa Saxena 12464 Pankaj Kumar Yadav 13793 Vikram Shree 13147 Arpit Gokhroo 12492 Prakash Mansuria 13803 Vivek Kumar Ojha 13189 Ayushi Gupta 12509 Praveen Kumar 13815 Yogesh Sharma 13217 Neha Ramakbal Chauhan 12586 Rohit Chauhan 13254 Dilsher Singh Malhi 12630 Satish Kumar Biological Sciences & Bioengineering 13263 Divyanshu Patel 12691 Shubham Deo 13276 Gaurav Agrawal 12777 Uttam Kumar Dwivedi 10766 Thadi Kalpana Prakash 13289 Harsh Agarwal 12803 Vikrant Gautam 11124 Anoop Mettu 13301 Himanshu 13012 Aayushya Vajpayee 11460 Nikhil Raj 13304 Himanshu Khandelwal 13017 Abhimanyu Gora 12079 Alli Sarath Chandra 13376 Ligin Anton George 13024 Abhinav Raj 12226 Deepak Chand Bansal 13382 Manish Markand Kapgate 13039 Adarsh Kabra 12447 Nikhil Verma 13397 Mayank Garg 13053 Ajay Kumar Gautam 12471 Patnala Rohit 13402 Meenakshi Shandilya 13061 Akash Deep 12618 Sanjana Mohapatra 13409 Mohit Pandey 13093 Amit Jangir 12690 Shubham Bhavsar 13422 Nandit Jain 13122 Ankur Gupta 12818 Virendra Meena 13423 Narendra Kumar Vidda 13140 Arindam Raj 13007 Aashish Sirshyam 13494 Prarabdh Bharti 13157 Ashish Pandey 13126 Annu Singh 13534 Rahul Meena 13183 Ayush Gupta 13133 Anuja Anil Harpale 13537 Rahul Singh 13199 Bhaskar Sharma 13200 Bhavishya Raj 13545 Rajat Verma 13234 Deepak Pawar 13215 Chandra Prakash Samariya 13568 Rishab Mahnot 13260 Divyansh Gupta 13244 Devesh Krishna Sen 13582 Ritu Raj 13281 Gopal Krishna 13247 Dharmendra Kumar Saini 13585 Rohit Chauhan 13290 Harsh Shah 13298 Harshita Srivastava 13647 Shashank Mohit Pandey 13293 Harsh Vardhan Narayan Singh 13317 Ishita Gupta 13649 Shashank Singh 13341 Karipe Rajguru 13318 Ishita Jain 13653 Shikhar Mittal 13365 Kumar Saurabh 13332 Junimeni Venkata Naga Rahul 13664 Shivangi Nivja 13383 Manish Anand 13377 M Anirudh 13668 Shreshtha Jakhar 13384 Manish Kumar Meena 13421 Namrata Choubey 13689 Shubham Praveen Jain 13395 Mayank Agarwal 13443 Nimit Jain 13695 Siddharth Gupta 13424 Narendra Prajapati

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13618 Sanjari Srivastava 13192 Badal Choudhary 13715 Subhash Saini 13554 Ranjeet Kumar 13623 Saransh Srivastava 13194 Bandi Nikhil 13716 Subhrajit Mandal 13566 Richa Agrawal 13624 Sarthak Garg 13195 Basavala Bhanu Prasanth 13729 Suresh Kumar Prajapat 13569 Rishab Mishra 13652 Shaswat Chaubey 13201 Bhupendra Ninania 13730 Suryakant Kumar 13574 Rishabh Pandey 13655 Shiv Shankar Azad 13204 Binay Prakash Prasad 13732 Sushant 13584 Rohan Tiwari 13660 Shivam Malhotra 13218 Chelumalla Rishi Revanth 13743 Tarun Prakash 13635 Saurav Kumar 13671 Shruti Bhargava 13224 Danny Boby 13757 Utsav Gupta 13642 Shaik Sushma 13674 Shubham Agrawal 13242 Devendra Sunariwal 13764 Vaibhaw Kumar 13648 Shashank Singh 13683 Shubham Jain 13243 Devendra Kumar Meena 13771 Varun Gupta 13679 Shubham Gupta 13708 Soumya Gayen 13252 Dhruv Roosia 13773 Varun Thumbe 13694 Siddharth Bhagat 13709 Sourav Anand 13253 Dileep Singh Rathore 13781 Vibhor Verma 13731 Suryansh Tiwari 13742 Tarun Kumar 13280 Gontu Harish 13811 Yash Parikh 13749 Tushar Ameria 13754 Utkarsh Agarwal 13327 Jitendra Gawariya 13816 Yugesh Kumar 13768 Vangoori Yellesh Kumar 13767 Vandana Gautam 13333 Jyotsana Kumari 13776 Vatsalya Kumar 13788 Vikas Jain 13335 Kalpesh Saubhri Engineering Science - Mechanics 13782 Vignaesh M 13806 Vivek Verma 13337 Kanhaya Namdhar 13804 Vivek Kumar Singh 13819 Atanu Chakraborty 13342 Kartikay Tehlan 11446 Naga Keshav Musunuri 13354 Krati Agrawal Mechanical Engineering 13362 Kuldeep Soni Electrical Engineering Materials Science & Engineering 13373 Lakshay Garg 10517 Prashant Sharma 13375 Lavisha Aggarwal 12028 Abhishek Meena 11247 Dharamsoth Kiran Kumar 10713 Siddhartha Ravi 12034 Abhishek Tyagi 13381 Maneesh Kumar Meena 11071 Aman Sunderka 13398 Mayank Jain 11749 Surinder Punia 12041 Adil Reza 12235 Devendra Kumar Meena 11395 M R Vinay 12219 Chirag Jha 13401 Mayur Gubrele 11475 Nitin Yadav 13425 Narsupalli Naveen Kumar 12389 Madhukar Singh 12253 Elle Atma Vidya Prakash 12480 Piyush Panchal 11578 Rajesh Kumar Meena 12278 Hansaraj Sarkar 13426 Naveen Kumar 11652 Saptarshi Paul 13427 Neeraj Kumar 12535 Rahul Kumar Jatoliya 12301 Himanshu Meena 12598 Saddam Raza 12174 Ashwani Kumar Roy 12500 Pranshul Chitransh 13433 Nihal Raj 12247 Divya Singh 13485 Prakhar Kulshreshtha 12631 Satish Kumar Yadav 12699 Shubham Kumar 12634 Satyam 12272 Ghanshyam Lal Dhakar 12701 Shubham Patel 13487 Pramod Kumar 12297 Himanshu Chaurasia 13490 Pranav Kumar 12677 Shivam Yadav 12808 Vinay Kumar Maddheshiya 12740 Sunil Kumar Matta 12393 Maitreya Sinha 12833 Yash Banwani 13506 Prawal Gangwar 12399 Manish Kumar Awadhiya 13526 Raghav Jagetia 13033 Abhishek Kumar Yadav 13004 Aakash Kumar 13049 Aishwarya 12435 Navneet Kamal 13006 Aashi Manglik 13531 Rahul Gupta 12438 Neeraj Rastogi 13544 Rajat Pratap Singh 13084 Aman Gajraj 13019 Abhimanyu Goyal 13087 Aman Trigunait 12610 Samuel Rudy S 13022 Abhinav Jain 13548 Rakesh Kumar 12684 Shridhar Agarwal 13555 Rasesh Gupta 13103 Amitabh Kumar 13031 Abhishek Sanwaria 13107 Amrit Raj 12702 Shubham Shankar 13062 Akash Kumar 13560 Ravindra Kumar Bangrawa 12837 Zaid Tasneem 13567 Rishab Jain 13164 Ashutosh Ranka 13063 Akash Kumar Panda 13168 Asit Anurag 13016 Abhay Kumar Singh 13065 Akhil Garg 13577 Rishika Agarwal 13023 Abhinav Kumar Singh 13579 Ritika Mulagalapalli 13174 Avichal Singh 13068 Akshat Agarwal 13211 Byrisetty Shashank Mohan 13035 Abhishek Rai 13092 Amit Gupta 13590 Roshan Kumar 13072 Akshay Donthi 13603 Saksham Agarwal 13230 Deepak Kumar Meena 13114 Ankit Agrawal 13272 Garikapati Sravan Pavan 13075 Akshay Kumar Sanghi 13125 Ankush Dixit 13606 Salil Mishra 13080 Alok Ranjan Sharma 13610 Samyak Jain 13284 Hari Prakash 13127 Anoop Kumar 13296 Harshit Saini 13098 Amit Kumar Meena 13144 Arnab Dey 13629 Satyam Dwivedi 13138 Archit Tripathi 13643 Shailesh Sharma 13299 Hemant Charan 13152 Arvind Kumar Meena 13306 Himanshu Natani 13146 Arpit Agrawal 13158 Ashish Yadav 13646 Shashank Kashyap 13188 Ayush Sinha 13657 Shivam Chaturvedi 13319 J Mounica 13159 Ashok Kumar 13360 Kuchankar Yogita Mahadeo 13197 Bhanu Chaturvedi 13162 Ashutosh Kumar 13659 Shivam Goyal 13206 Bipin Kumar Gond 13680 Shubham Gupta 13366 Kumar Shubham 13163 Ashutosh Kumar 13374 Lavanya Bathwal 13227 Debasish Sahoo 13170 Atul Gupta 13685 Shubham Kumar 13232 Deepak Kumar Umar Vaishya 13693 Siddhant Singh Dangi 13406 Akhil Prabhakar Mishra 13173 Avani Samdariya 13412 Mugdh Agarwal 13236 Deependra Rajpoot 13184 Ayush Jain 13699 Siddharth Tanwar 13251 Dhruv Goel 13710 Sourya Basu 13435 Nikhil Asati 13187 Ayush Shakya 13495 Prasanjit Natta 13255 Dinesh Choudhary

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13259 Divyank Mishra Chemistry 13143 Arman Alam Siddique 13262 Divyanshu Narayan 13150 Arushi Agrawal 13291 Harsh Suresh Khoont 11083 Amrit Raj Pathak 13190 Azad Soni 13307 Himanshu Priyadarshi 13268 Durgesh Kumar 13314 Ishank Agarwal 11563 Rahul Kumar Lakra 11692 Shobhit Todi 13297 Harshit Yadav 13385 Manish Kumar Meena 13312 Iqra Altaf 13386 Manish Kumar Sanadhya 12290 Harshit Rathore 13316 Ishita Ankit 13391 Manraj Singh Bevli 12765 Tushar Singh 13347 Keshaw Singh 13408 Mohit Kumar Sinha 13011 Aayushi Aggarwa 13410 Mrinal Mahajan 13108 Anand Kamal 13348 Khargonkar Ninad Arun 13411 Mrinal Mandal 13239 Devansh Sharma 13367 Kumarmanas Nethil 13445 Nishant 13556 Ratan Ray 13418 Nakul Surana 13461 Pankaj Kumar Verma 13434 Nihar Prakash Gargava 13436 Nikhil Kulhar 13469 Pawan Kumar Maurya Economics 13475 Piyush Panchal 13448 Nishant Kumar 13501 Pratyush Mishra 13456 Pallav Goyal 13507 Prayaas Bhagat 12579 Ritesh Giri 13511 Prince Kumar 13524 Rachit Agarwal 13135 Anushank Jain 13607 Samanwita Samal 13550 Rakesh Singh 13151 Arvind Kumar Mavliya 13644 Shambhavi Singh 13553 Randhir Kumar 13225 Dasari Shanti Sree 13658 Shivam Chourasia 13558 Ravi Kothari 13370 Kush Gupta 13673 Shubham Agrawal 13559 Ravi Tulsian 13432 Nidhi Patni 13702 Sivasankar C Nair 13570 Rishabh Anand 13442 Nimisha Gupta 13711 Sparsh 13576 Rishav Jain 13540 Rajat Agrawal 13614 Sandeep Suresh Babu 13752 Umang Moorarka 13651 Shashwat Singh 13619 Sansit Patnaik 13812 Yash Vardhan Singh 13667 Shrenik Bohra 13626 Sashikant Saini 13634 Saurabh Suman 13704 Snehil Patel Physics 13663 Shivam Soni 13665 Shivank Garg Mathematics & Statistics 11388 Nagar 13677 Shubham Gajbhiye 12281 Harish Yadav 13692 Shyamsunder Sihotia 11193 Barun Kumar Patra 13701 Singh Gaurav Chirag 12298 Himanshu Choudhary 11261 Divyansh Shukla 13703 Skand Upmanyu 12660 Shashank Bhandar 11556 Raghav Kunamalla 13720 Sumit Kumar 12668 Shibashankar Sahoo 13723 Sunil Kumar 12051 Aditya Ramamohan Degala 12723 Smit Zaveri 13726 Suraj Kumar Kariyare 12054 Ajay Pingolia 12832 Yash Bagla 13734 Swapnil Kumar Nandwana 12064 Akash Kumar Chaudhary 13329 Varun Rajeev Jorapur 13746 Thakkar Kirtankumar Jayeshkumar 12224 Debasatwa Sarma Roy 13483 Prakhar Godara 13780 Vibhor Aggarwal 12289 Harshit Mittal 13591 Rutvij Vihang Bhavsar 13786 Vikas Ahirwar 12726 Saurabh Mittal 13593 Saarthak Jajoria 13787 Vikas Bharti 12771 Utkarsh Garg 13669 Shreya Shukla 13789 Vikas Marmat 13040 Aditay Shaw 13739 Talari Suresh 13794 Vikram Singh Choudhary 13069 Akshat Mudgal 13750 Uddipan Banik 13802 Vivek Dubey 13106 Amol Bansal 13814 Yogendra Swami 13119 Ankit Kumar

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B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering - Second Major Physics 12027 ABHISHEK MALIK

B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering 12323 JITAL BHARAT PATEL

B.Tech. Biological Sciences & Bioengineering - Second Major Electrical Engneering 11375 KSHITIJ AGARWAL

B.Tech. Civil Engineerng - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering Honorary Degrees 11321 ISHAAN DUBE

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B.Tech Chemical Engineering - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering 12385 M ARVIND

B.S. Economics - Second Major Mathematics & Scientific Computing 12728 SRAJAL NAYAK

B.Tech Mechanical Engineering - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering 12694 SHUBHAM GUPTA

B.Tech Materials Science & Engineering - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering 12123 ANKIT PACHOURI

B.Tech Materials Science & Engineering - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering 12133 ANSHUL GOYAL

B.Tech Materials Science & Engineering - Second Major Computer Science & Engineering 12750 SWATHI KRISHNA D

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Professor Ajay Kumar Sood Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

Professor Ajay K. Sood was born on June 26, 1951. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1971 and Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, born on 7 August 1925, is popularly known as the Father of Green Revolution in India. He is the Founder Chairman, 1972, respectively, and immediately joined the BARC training school. While posted as a scientist at the IGCAR, Kalpakkam, he was awarded Emeritus Chairman and Chief Mentor of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) at , which he founded in 1988. Dr. Ph.D. degree by the Indian Institute of Science, in 1982. After postdoctoral research at Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart, followed Swaminathan obtained a B.Sc. degree in Zoology from the Maharajas College in Thiruvananthapuram, and also in Agricultural Sciences from by a brief period of service at IGCAR, he joined IISc, Bangalore in 1988 where he continues to serve till now. During three decades of the Agricultural College. Subsequently, he received M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Sciences (specializing in genetics and plant association with IISc, he has served in various capacities including the Chairman, Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1998- breeding) from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in 1949 and Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University, UK in 1952. Dr. 2008). Swaminathan joined the faculty of IARI, New , in 1954. He became the Director of IARI (1961-72), Director General of Indian Council of Professor Ajay Sood has made outstanding contributions in both hard- and soft-condensed matter that are profound in terms of experimental Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary to the , Department of Agricultural Research and Education (1972-79), discovery as well as theoretical understanding. Most of his research in condensed matter has strong overlap with materials science and Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture (1979-80), Acting Deputy Chairman and later Member (Science and Agriculture), Planning engineering. Some of his research interests lie at the interface between physics and biology. He has developed some of the finest Commission (1980-82), and Director General, International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines (1982-88). experimental techniques, applied them to discover many fascinating natural phenomena, and used them to design sensitive devices for A plant geneticist by training, Dr. Swaminathan has made a stellar contribution to the agricultural renaissance of India, and is widely regarded practical applications. His publications, totalling close to four hundred so far, cover a wide range of topics. Several of his innovations have as the scientific leader of India's green revolution movement. His advocacy of sustainable agriculture leading to an ever-green revolution been patented. He has guided more than 30 Ph.D. theses. makes him an acknowledged world leader in the field of sustainable food security. The International Association of Women and Development In 2015, Professor Sood was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) . At present, he is the President of the Indian National conferred on him the first international award for significant contributions to promoting the knowledge, skill, and technological empowerment Science Academy, and Secretary General, TWAS (2013-18). Earlier, he served as the President of the Indian Academy of of women in agriculture, and for his pioneering role in mainstreaming gender considerations in agriculture and rural development. Sciences, Bangalore during 2010-12. He is an elected Fellow of all the three National Science Academies in India and The World Academy of Dr. Swaminathan has received numerous awards and honours, including the S.S. Bhatnagar Award for his contribution to biological sciences Sciences (TWAS). Prof. Sood has been honoured with a large number of prestigious awards which include the S.S. Bhatnagar Award (1990), (1961), Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1971, the Albert Einstein World Science Award in 1986, the first World Food TWAS prize (2000), G.D. Birla Science Award (2000), Bhabha medal of INSA (2002), Materials Research Society (India) Medal (2000), Prize in 1987, the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal and the Millennium Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress (2000), M.N. Saha Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (2003-2004), Mahatma Gandhi Prize of UNESCO in 2000, and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award in 2007. Dr. Swaminathan is a proud recipient of Sir C.V. Raman Award (2003), Goyal prize (2003), National Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, DST (2006), Bhatnagar Fellowship some of India's highest honours including (1967), (1972) and (1989). He is a Fellow of many of CSIR (2007), G.M. Modi Award (2012), R D Birla Award for Excellence in Physics by IPA (2014), Life Time Achievement Award by Optical of the leading scientific academies of India and the world, including the Royal Society of London and the US National Academy of Sciences. Society of India (2016), Distinguished Alumnus Award of IISc (2016) and MRSI Distinguished Material Scientist of the Year (2016). He has received 81 honorary doctorate degrees from universities around the world. He was a Member of the Parliament of India (Rajya At the national level, Prof. Sood has served as Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (2009-2014), Member, Sabha) for the period 2007-13. He also chairs the Task Force set up by the Ministry of External Affairs to oversee the projects undertaken in Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (2012-2014), Chairman, Council, Raman Research Institute (2016-present), Member, Afghanistan and Myanmar in the field of agriculture and was elected the “Living Legend of International Union of Nutrition Sciences” at the Nano Mission Council of DST, Chairman, Nano Science Advisory Group of DST, Member, Board of Governors of the Academy of Scientific 20th International Congress of Nutrition held at Granada, Spain. and Innovative Research (AcSIR), and Member, Governing Body and the Society of the CSIR (2013-2016). In recognition of his scientific contributions and service to science in India, he has been honoured with “Padma Shri” by the Government of India in 2013.

50th Convocation, 2017 Honorary Degrees 2017 28 50th Convocation, 2017 Honorary Degrees 2017 29 HONORARY DEGREE (Honoris Causa) HONORARY DEGREE (Honoris Causa) Fiftieth Convocation, 2017 Fiftieth Convocation, 2017

Professor Mriganka Sur Ms Pilavullakandi Thekkeparampil Usha

Professor Mriganka Sur is the Paul E. and Lilah Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at Pilavullakandi Thekkeparampil Usha (born 27 June 1964), popularly known as P. T. Usha, is an iconic Indian athlete. She was born in Koothali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA which he founded after 15 years as Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive a village in the Kozhikode District of Kerala. Considered one of the greatest athletes India has ever produced, Usha is often called the "queen Sciences at MIT. Professor Sur received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1974, of Indian track and field.” She is also known by the sobriquet “Payyoli Express.” and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, USA in the year 1975 and 1978, respectively. After P.T. Usha's journey into the world of athletics began in the year 1976 when she was chosen to represent her district in the then newly founded postdoctoral and faculty positions at Vanderbilt University, SUNY Stony Brook, and Yale University School of Medicine, Professor Sur joined Sports School for Women run under the aegis of the Kerala State Government. In 1979 she participated in the National School Games, where the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT as an Associate Professor in 1986 and rose to the rank of full Professor in 1993. she won the individual championship and came into the limelight. Her first international performance came in the 1980 Pakistan Open Professor Sur is one of the pioneers in the study of brain plasticity. He studies the organization, plasticity and dynamics of the cerebral cortex National Meet at Karachi where she won 4 gold medals for the country. In 1982 at Seoul World junior athletic championship she won a gold of the brain using experimental and theoretical approaches. He has discovered fundamental principles by which neural networks are formed medal in 200 meters and bronze medal in 100 meters. The same year at New Delhi Asian Games, she won silver medals in both 100 and 200 during the course of development and how they evolve during learning. His laboratory has identified gene networks underlying cortical metres. In the 1983 Asian Track and Field Championships in Kuwait, she won gold in the 400 metres setting a new Asian record. By 1984, the plasticity, and pioneered high resolution imaging methods to study cells, synapses and circuits of the intact brain. His research group has Los Angeles Olympics, she had improved tremendously. She won the 400 M hurdles heats and semi finals, and missed getting India's first demonstrated novel mechanisms underlying disorders of brain development, and proposed innovative strategies for treating such disorders. track-and-field bronze medal in the 400m hurdles finals by 1/100 sec, in a dramatic photo finish. She put her faith in her natural talent and trusted in God almighty, with the strength from the people of India. She emerged a winner becoming the first Indian sports woman to enter the Professor Sur has received numerous awards and honours, including the Meghnad Saha Award of the Institute of Electronics and Olympics final at the age of twenty. She had set a Commonwealth and Asian continental best, 55.42 seconds for the event which still stands Telecommunication Engineers, India (1976), Charles Judson Herrick Award of the American Association of Anatomists (1983), Whitaker today as a National Record. In the 1985 Jakarta Asian Championships, she won six medals, five gold and one bronze. Such a spectacular Health Sciences Fund Faculty Award (1986), McKnight Neuroscience Development Award (1988), Sigma Xi award (2001), the Distinguished performance created an all-time record for most gold medals won by an individual at a single event in the history of the championships. This Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur (2002), and the NIH BRAIN Initiative Inaugural award (2014). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of the track record of Usha in the world of athletics has not been matched or surpassed till date by any athlete, in the world, surprisingly the only world UK, the National Academy of Medicine of the US, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the record held by an Indian in the world of athletics. Usha nearly replicated her superlative performance of the Jakarta Championships in the Advancement of Science, the World Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy. Professor Sur has trained over 75 1986 Seoul Asian Games with a tally of one silver and four gold medals. In the 1987 Singapore Asian Championships, she won three gold and doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, and has received many awards for outstanding teaching and mentoring. A few of them include two silver medals. In 1989 at the New Delhi ATF, she won 4 gold and 2 silver medals. In her 24 years of active career from 1976 to 2000, she Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, MIT (1989), School of Science Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising, MIT won 103 international medals and 1042 national medals, to her credit. (2000), and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, MIT (2013). Professor Sur has occupied the DBT Distinguished Biotechnology Chair at the National Brain Research Centre, India, and currently occupies the Narayana Murthy In her stellar athletic career, P. T. Usha has been the recipient of many national and international awards and recognitions. The Indian Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research at IIT Madras. Government decorated her with the in 1984 and the Padma Shri in 1985. She was chosen the best woman athlete in the 1985 Jakarta Asian Athletic Meet. Usha was conferred the Best Asian Athlete Award in the years 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989. She was also honoured with the World Trophy for the best Athlete during the years 1985 and 1986. She retired from competitive athletics in 2000, and started the Usha School of Athletics in her native, for the promotion and practice of athletics with state-of-the-art facilities in athletic skill development. Her mentees at the Usha School of Athletics include Tintu Lukka, who qualified for the women's semi-final 800 metres at the 2012 Olympics in London and Jisna Mathew, 17 years old, who represented the country in 2016 Rio Olympics and 8 international athletes with 69 international awards from 2006 to 2016. By honouring Pilavullakandi Thekkeparampil Usha, IIT Kanpur is celebrating the success saga of one of the finest sportspersons of this country, who is a role model and a source of inspiration for millions of young men and women in all walks of life.

50th Convocation, 2017 Honorary Degrees 2017 30 50th Convocation, 2017 Honorary Degrees 2017 31 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Second Convocation 1967 Prof. Norman C. Dahl First Kanpur Indo-American Programme Leader Doctor of Science

Shri Morarji R. Desai Deputy Prime Minister of India Doctor of Letters

Fourteenth Convocation 1981 Prof. P. K. Kelkar Former Director, IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay Doctor of Science

Thirty Second Convocation 2000 Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India Doctor of Science Forty Second Convocation 2010 Dr. Awards & Prime Minister of India Doctor of Science Forty Fifth Convocation 2013 Prof. Honours Professor of Physics, Harish Chandra Research Institute Doctor of Science th Shri N. R. Narayana Murthy 50 Convocation Founder, Infosys Ltd. Doctor of Science

Forty Sixth Convocation 2014 Prof. V. Rajaraman 2017 Honorary Professor Indian Institute of Science, Banglore Doctor of Science

Dr. Arun Shourie Journalist, Former Register and Union Minister Doctor of Science

Forty Seventh Convocation 2015 Prof. Rakesh Jain Director, E.L. Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Doctor of Science

Prof. T.V. Ramakrishnan Emeritus Professor, Banaras Hindu University Doctor of Science

Forty Eighth Convocation 2015 Dr. Pawan Kumar Goenka Executive Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited Doctor of Science

Mr. India's and Former World Chess Champion Doctor of Science

Forty Ninth Convocation 2016 Prof.Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao Honorary President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advance Scientific Research (JNCASR) Doctor of Science

50th Convocation, 2017 Honorary Degrees 2017 32 PRESIDENT'S GOLD MEDAL

For the best academic performance among graduating students of all disciplines in the 4-year / 5-year UG programmes. SANSIT PATNAIK MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Past Recipients 1965 Avadhesh Kumar Nigam 1993 Garud N. R. 1966 Kul Bhushan Ohri 1994 Arvind Rajaraman 1967 Shashi Kumar Singhania Alok Agrawal 1968 Santosh Kumar Gupta Amit Mehrotra 1969 Ashok Kumar Chandra Khurram Sajid 1970 Prabhakar Goel Shaz Qadeer Sartaj Kumar Sahni 1995 Shiraz Naval Minwalla 1971 Dhiraj Kumar Sharma Gokul Rajaram 1972 Sudershan Kumar Gupta Sudipto Guha 1973 Aditya Kumar Gupta 1996 Anupam Gupta 1974 Anupam Khanna Geeta Tarachandani 1975 Sudhir Vyas Saurabh Tripathi 1976 Sanjay Kumar Bose 1997 Sudipta Sengupta Suresh Kumar Lodha 1998 Rupak Majumdar 1977 Anurag Kumar 1999 S. Viswanath 1978 Pingali Keshav Kumar 2000 Sumit Gulwani Christopher J. J. Flores 2001 Sourav Chatterji Raghvendra Sahai 2002 Utkarsh Hriday Srivastava 1979 Manvendra K. Dubey 2003 Shaunak Sen 1980 Sanjiva Keshav Lele 2004 Yogeshwer Sharma 1981 Sanjay Kasturia 2005 Madhur Tulsiani 1982 Amod Arvind Ogale 2006 Abhinav Agarwal Gopal Raghavan Subhojoy Gupta 1983 G. N. Srinivasa Prasanna 2007 Ravishankar Sundararaman 1984 Alok Tandon 2008 Anindya De 1985 Upmanyu Madhow 2009 Piyush Srivstava Mani Bhushan Srivastava 2010 Nerella Tejaswi Venu Madhav 1986 Rajesh Kumar Pankaj 2011 Mohit Mittal 1987 Rajiv S. Alur 2012 Shubhayu Chatterjee Dinesh Chandra Verma Ankit Kumar 1988 Ashish Gupta Ashish Gupta 1989 Vineet Gupta 2013 Shubham Tulsiani 1990 V. Ramesh 2014 Nitish Kumar srivastava Vivek Bhatt 2015 “Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.” 1991 Sudershan Chawathe 2016 Ayush Sekhari ― Jiddu Krishnamurti 1992 Venkat Krishnamurthy

50th Convocation, 2017 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 35 DIRECTOR’S GOLD MEDAL CADENCE GOLD MEDAL For the outstanding all round achievement and leadership among For the best thesis in 5-year programmes students graduating in all 5-year undergraduate programmes across all departments

NOVNIT KASHYAP RAHUL SHARMA Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering

DIRECTOR’S GOLD MEDAL CADENCE GOLD MEDAL For the outstanding all round achievement and leadership among For the best thesis in 2-year M. Tech. / MS by Research students graduating in all 4-year undergraduate programmes programmes across all departments

PALLAV GOYAL CHANCHAL Mathematics & Scientific Computing Photonics Science and Engineering

RATAN SWARUP MEMORIAL PRIZE DR. SHANKER DAYAL SHARMA MEDAL For the best all rounder among students graduating in the For the best all round graduating student in M. Tech./ MBA/M. 4-year/5-year undergraduate programmes Des/MS by Research/Ph.D./M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree programmes based on general proficiency including character and conduct, RICHA AGRAWAL excellence in academic performance, extra-curricular activities, Materials Science & Engineering and social service VIGNESHWARAN K Aerospace Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 36 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 37 GENERAL PROFICIENCY MEDALS PROFICIENCY MEDALS

For the best academic performance among graduating students of the For the best undergraduate project work done by graduating students in 4-year/5-year and 2-year M.Sc. programmes in each of the departments the 4-year/5-year and 2-year M.Sc. programmes in each of the departments

4-Year/5-Year Undergraduate Programmes 4-Year/5-Year Undergraduate Programmes Aerospace Engineering 13283 Hardik Parwana Aerospace Engineering 13522 R Archith Biological Sciences & Bioengineering 13318 Ishita Jain Computer Science & Engineering 13196 Bavishi Rohan Jayesh Chemical Engineering 13289 Harsh Agarwal Mechanical Engineering 13619 Sansit Patnaik Civil Engineering 13808 Yagyesh Chander 13780 Vibhor Aggarwal Computer Science & Engineering 13449 Nishant Rai 12807436 Navneet Singh Electrical Engineering 13163 Ashutosh Kumar Chemistry 12817322 Jayashrita Debnath Chemistry 13011 Aayushi Aggarwal Economics 12817081 Alok Ranjan Economics 13442 Nimisha Gupta Mathematics & Scientific Computing 12817284 Harsh Kumar Mechanical Engineering 13619 Sansit Patnaik 12817143 Anupreet Porwal Mathematics & Scientific Computing 13456 Pallav Goyal 12817407 Md. Enayat Ullah Materials Science & Engineering 13566 Richa Agrawal Physics 13750 Uddipan Banik

Master of Science (2-Year) Programmes Master of Science (2-Year) Programmes Chemistry 151006 Anirban Misra Chemistry 151015 Kousik Biswas Mathematics 151045 Ayan Halder 151028 Shayantani Ash Physics 151136 Bhuvnesh Physics 151155 Souvik Bandyopadhyay Statistics 151120 Soumya Das

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 38 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 39 IIT KANPUR EXCELLENCE AWARDS LEADERSHIP IN STUDENTS' AFFAIRS

COMMUNITY SERVICES For the exemplary work related to all aspects of student governance, hostel management affairs and leadership in organization of events at Department/Hall/Institute level

For the outstanding work in various aspects of community services ROBINSON GURIA VIPUL GARG Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering SRINIVASAN V VISHAL KUMAR Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering RACHIT AGARWAL SAPNA MEENA Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering ASHUTOSH RANKA RUTVIJ VIHANG BHAVSAR Materials Science & Engineering Physics

PROF. ADIDAM SRI RANGA SAI MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL

ART & CULTURAL ACTIVITIES For the outstanding academic performance in 2-year M. Tech. programme in the area of Structural Engineering of Civil Engineering department

For the outstanding work in various fields of art and cultural activities MIR FAIZAN UL HAQ VIJETA Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering

RICHA AGRAWAL CADENCE SILVER MEDAL Materials Science & Engineering For the best thesis in 2-year M. Tech. programmes in Computer Science & Engineering / Electrical Engineering departments

RICHA SINGH Computer Science & Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 40 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 41 DR. S. D. BOKIL MEMORIAL MEDAL BOGINENI CHENCHU RAMA NAIDU GOLD MEDAL

For the best M. Tech student in Environmental Engineering specialization of For the best graduating 2-year M. Tech. student of Materials Science Programme or Civil Engineering department Materials Science & Engineering department

SORATHIA FENA MOHANBHAI SHASHWAT SINGH Civil Engineering Materials Science & Engineering

PROF. VIJAY MAHAJAN AWARD MEHTA M. TECH. GOLD MEDAL For the best academic performance in the MBA programme of Industrial & Management Engineering department For the best academic performance in 2-Year M.Tech. programme of Mechanical Engineering department. KINSUK GHATAK Industrial & Management Engineering DIVYANSHU BHARDWAJ Mechanical Engineering

SHAILJA SRIVASTAVA AWARD RANJAN KUMAR MEMORIAL AWARD

For the best graduating non-doctoral student from For the best socially relevant project by any graduating student(s) of any department Industrial & Management Engineering or Mathematics & Statistics departments SANSIT PATNAIK AYAN HALDER VIBHOR AGGARWAL Mathematics & Statistics MRIDUL BHARADWAJ Mechanical Engineering

SRI BINAY KUMAR SINHA AWARD

For the best project that solves a problem affecting common people

MANISH KUMAR MEENA MANISH KUMAR SANADHYA MANRAJ SINGH BEVLI Mechanical Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 42 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 43 BANCO FOUNDATION PRIZE DR. PRATEEK MISHRA MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL

For the best academic performance in 4-year/5-year programs of the For the best academic performance in 4-year/5-year programmes Mechanical Engineering department of the Electrical Engineering department

MANRAJ SINGH BEVLI ASHUTOSH KUMAR (13162) Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering

BATRA GOLD MEDAL KUNWAR DEVENDRA PRATAP SINGH & KUNWARANI KRISHNA KUMARI MEMORIAL AWARD For the best academic performance in 4-year/5-year programs of the Materials Science & Engineering department For the best undergraduate project by graduating 4-year/5-year programme student of Aerospace Engineering department SEMANTI MUKHOPADHYAY Materials Science & Engineering SAMVIT KUMAR Aerospace Engineering

SUMAN GUPTA GOLD MEDAL BHAGWANI DEVI MAHESHWARI GOLD MEDAL

For the best academic performance in 4-year/5-year programmes For the best all round graduating girl student in the 4-year/5-year programme with of the Mathematics & Statistics department academic excellence, social awareness, leadership qualities and extracurricular involvement IQRA ALTAF Mathematics & Statistics RISHIKA AGARWAL Electrical Engineering

BHAGWAN DAS SANGHI MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL PROF. ADIDAM SRI RANGA SAI MEMORIAL MEDAL

For the best graduating student in the 5-year programme with For the outstanding all round achievement among graduating students B.Tech. / B.S. in any department and MS in Mathematics & Scientific Computing in 4-year/5-year programme in the Civil Engineering department

ANUPREET PORWAL NOVNIT KASHYAP Mathematics & Statistics Civil Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 44 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 45 SIIC STUDENT INNOVATION AWARD (SSIA) Dr. VISHWANATH BAJPAI MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL

For the best innovative project in path breaking technology of For the best thesis of the graduating M.Tech./MS by Research student global importance in any domain of the department of Earth Sciences

ROHIT SEHGAL SHANKHO NIYOGI MAJITHIA NISHIT MAHENDRABHAI Earth Sciences Computer Science & Engineering

MRIDUL BHARADWAJ Mechanical Engineering BEST SOFTWARE AWARD

For the best software developed by any graduating student BEST ALL ROUNDER GIRL STUDENT OF or a group of students of any discipline TWO YEAR MASTER'S PROGRAMME GOLD MEDAL JAYASHRITA DEBNATH Chemistry For the best all-rounder graduating girl student of 2-year Master's programmes (M. Tech./MBA/M. Des.)

PRATITI SARKAR Design Programme SMT. SHASHI PUNDIR MEMORIAL MEDAL

For the best graduating 2-year M. Tech. or MS by Research student of MOTOROLA GOLD MEDAL Mechanical Engineering department with thesis in thermal/fluid sciences and transport phenomenon For the outstanding all round achievement among graduating students in 4-year/5-year programs of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments PRIYA GUPTA Mechanical Engineering SHIVAM MALHOTRA Computer Science & Engineering

TRILOK CHANDRA GOEL MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL MARS G. FONTANA PRIZE For the best project or published paper by any graduating student which has For the graduating student of Materials Science & Engineering department in 4-year/ contributed to economic growth with a sustainable future by helping conserve energy 5-year programmes having the highest CPI and taken a course in corrosion and/or water resources

RICHA AGRAWAL GURJYOT SINGH SETHI Materials Science & Engineering Chemical Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 46 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 47 PROF. BURTON J. MOYER MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL RADHABAI VASUDEO NAVELKAR AWARD

For the best academic performance among all the graduating MS students For the best graduating girl student of the 2-year M. Tech. program from the Computer Science & Engineering department ANUPREET PORWAL Mathematics & Statistics RICHA SINGH Computer Science & Engineering

PROF. PUTCHA VENKATESWARLU MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL KANTA DEVI MALIK MEMORIAL AWARD

For the best academic performance among all the graduating 4-year undergraduate For the best academic performance among all the graduating 4-year B. Tech girl students students DRISHTI WALI ASHUTOSH KUMAR (13163) Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Engineering

PROF. R.K. JAIN AWARD SANGEETA PRADHAN MEMORIAL MEDAL

For the best academic performance among all graduating 2-year M.Sc. students from the For the outstanding all around achievement among the graduating students of department of Mathematics M.Sc. (2 Year) programmes

APURVA SETH NISHA Mathematics & Statistics Chemistry

DR. ELIZABETH & DR. VARKEY CHERIAN AWARD

For the best undergraduate project with an impact on the campus community

DEVASHISH KUMAR YADAV GAURAV Computer Science & Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 48 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 49 GOPAL DAS BHANDARI MEMORIAL AWARDEES OF INSTITUTE FELLOW DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD

2005 Prof. E. C. Subbarao Mr. F. C. Kohli

2006 Prof. K. R. Sarma

2007 Prof. A. Vasudeva Prof. G. D. Agrawal

2008 Prof. G. K. Lal

Prof. Parasar Mohanty 2009 Prof. P. T. Narasimhan This award to Prof. Parasar Mohanty is a thankful gesture from the student community for his unending dedication towards his students over the years, exhibiting an amiability that 2010 Prof. S. K. Gupta has been received by his students with immense gratitude. Prof. A. K. Mittal

Past Recipients 2011 None 2008 Prof. K. Srihari Chemistry 2012 None

2009 Prof. B. N. Banerjee 2013 Prof. Sanjay G. Dhande Mechanical Engineering Prof. N. Sathyamurthy Prof. T. V. S. Ramamohan Rao 2010 Prof. Surender Baswana Computer Science & Engineering 2014 Prof. M. Anandkrishnan 2011 Prof. Suchitra Mathur Prof. M A Pai Humanities and Social Sciences Prof. Vijay Kumar Stokes Prof. Amitabha Ghosh 2012 Prof. Swagato Kumar Ray Mathematics & Statistics Prof. Dipankar Chakravorty

2013 Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham 2015 Prof. D. Balasubramanian Electrical Engineering Prof. R. N. Biswas Prof. Asok Kumar Mallik 2014 Prof. A. Rangnath Harish Electrical Engineering

2015 Prof. Janakarajan Ramkumar Mechanical Engineering

2016 Prof. Sumit Ganguly Computer Science & Engineering

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 50 50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 51 DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD RECIPIENTS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARDEES

2002 Prof. G. D. Agarwal Mr. (BT/EE/66) 1989 Mr. Rakesh Gangwal (BT/ME/75) 2000 Prof. Amitabha Ghosh for excellence in entrepreneurship. for outstanding managerial career and ongoing Prof. K. R. Sarma contribution to the world of aviation industry. Mr. Anil Agrawal (BT/ME/70) 1991 for outstanding achievements in activity pertaining Mr. (BT/EE/75) 2000 2003 Prof. G. K. Lal to the service of humanity at large. for indomitable spirit, vision and dedication in the Prof. H. C. Verma area of internet enabling technologies. Prof. Leelavati Krishnan Dr. Rakesh K. Jain (BT/ChE/72) 1994 for advancement of knowledge in health sciences Mr. Som Mittal (BT/MME/73) 2000 and technology. for outstanding managerial career in different 2004 Prof. A. K. Mallik industries as diverse as automotive to information Dr. U. N. Sinha (PhD/ME/70) 1994 technology. 2005 Prof. Harish Karnick for pioneering work and outstanding contributions Late Prof. J. L. Batra to the development of computing technology in the Dr. (MSc2/CHM/69) 2000 country. for exemplary zeal and dedication to science in 2006 Professor R. N. Biswas general and to his field of research, in particular. Dr. Ashok K. Chandra (BT/EE/69) 1997 Professor Amit Ray for outstanding contributions in computer science Mr. Jeet S. Bindra (BT/CHE/69) 2001 research. for outstanding technological and exceptional 2007 Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi managerial contributions to the petroleum industry. Prof. Manoj Kumar Harbola Mr. Umang Gupta (BT/ChE/71) 1997 Prof. Madhira Radha Madhav for outstanding achievements in information Dr. Sartaj Sahni (BT/EE/70) 2001 Prof. Harihara Subra Mani technology and entrepreneurship. for outstanding and seminal contributions in the area of computer science and engineering. Dr. (MSc2/Chm/67) 1998 2008 Prof. Surinder Kumar Gupta for outstanding contributions in polymer chemistry Mr. Deepak Bhagat (BT/EE/73) 2001 Prof. C. V. R. Murty research and its successful industrial application. for outstanding managerial skills and role in building institute-alumni relationship of a very high order. 2009 Prof. P. Shunmuguraj Dr. Jagdish (Jai) Narayan (BT/MME/69) 1998 for outstanding contributions and phenomenal Dr. Pradeep S. Sindhu (BT/EE/74) 2001 academic achievements in materials science and for contributions in developing path-breaking 2010 Late Prof. R. Balasubramaniam engineering. architecture design and internet backbone router Late Prof. V. N. Kulkarni technologies and using them to setup and manage Prof. S. S. K. Iyer Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy (MT/EE/69) 1998 world class internet company. Prof. Amit Mitra for creating and building an outstanding entrepreneurial venture and putting india on the Dr. Rajendra Singh (BT/EE/75) 2001 international software map. for contributions in developing wireless mobile 2011 Prof. Arvind K. Sinha radio communication technologies and using them Prof. Swagato K. Ray Dr. Arvind (BT/EE/69) 1999 to set up and manage companies of truly for outstanding contributions in the field of computer international standards. 2012 None science research. Mr. Arvind Kumar Gupta (BT/EE/75) 2001 2013 Prof. Raghubir Sharan Mr. Saurabh Srivastava (BT/ME/68) 1999 for outstanding contributions in developing low cost for outstanding contributions to the information science-base teaching aids for children and thus Prof. G. Neelakantan technology industry and achievements in rendering great service to humanity at large. Prof. Aloke Dutta entrepreneurship. Mr. Ajoy Kumar Bose (BT/EE/71) 2002 2014 Prof. Arun Kumar Sharma Dr. Ashoke Sen (MSc2/Phy/78) 1999 for outstanding contributions in the field of for being one of the most outstanding theoretical electronic design automation and setting-up of physicists in the world. managing companies of truly international 2015 Prof. Kripa Shanker standards. Prof. Y. D. Vankar Dr. Prabhakar Goel (BT/EE/70) 1999 Prof. Baquer Mazhari for entrepreneurship, outstanding technological Mr. Mriganka Sur (BT/EE/74) 2002 contributions and above-all, valuable community for outstanding and seminal contributions in the 2016 Dr. P. M. Dixit service and support in the area of education to field of brain and cognitive sciences. Dr. Jitendra Kumar needy students in India.

50th Convocation, 2017 Awards & Honours 52 50th Convocation, 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Awardees 53 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARDEES DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARDEES

Mr. Lalit K. Jalan (BT/EE/79) 2002 Mr. Abhay K. Bhushan (BT/EE/65) 2006 Prof. Ashok Sinha (BT/EE/1973) 2008 Dr. Jainendra Kumar Jain (MSC2/PHY/81) 2010 for outstanding and seminal contributions in the for excellence in entrepreneurship and outstanding for outstanding managerial contributions. for outstanding insights, and a large body of work in area of chemical processing industry. and all round contributions to social activities. Prof. Jitendra Malik (BT/EE/1980) 2008 Dr. K. Vjay Raghavan (BTChE/75) 2003 Mr. Pawan Kumar (BT/CE/69) 2006 for outstanding contributions to the field of for outstanding contributions in the field of biological for excellence in entrepreneurship. computer science and engineering. sciences. Mr. Vijay Mahajan (BT/ChE/70) 2006 Prof. Arup K. Chakraborty (BT/CHE/1983) 2008 Dr. Sandip Tiwari (BT/EE/76) 2003 for outstanding and seminal contributions to for outstanding contributions to the field of chemical for outstanding contributions in the field of micro- academics specifically in the area of management engineering. electronics and nano-fabrication technologies. studies. Dr. Arun Shukla (BT/ME/1976) 2009 Mr. Mohan Arvind Tambe (BT/EE/80) 2003 Mr. Pradeep Jotwani (BT/ME/75) 2006 for outstanding contributions and academic for outstanding contributions in the field of for outstanding managerial career and ongoing achievements in the field of experimental information and communication engineering. contribution to the world of information technology. mechanics.

Mr. Mahesh Bihari Lal (BT/ChE/69) 2003 Mr. Ambuj Goyal (BT/EE/78) 2006 Dr. Devendra Shukla (BT/CE/1967) 2009 for outstanding and all-round contributions to the for outstanding managerial career and ongoing for outstanding entrepreneurial and managerial petroleum refining industry in India. contribution to the world of information technology. contributions.

Mr. Manindra Agrawal (BT/CSE/86) 2003 Mr. Umesh Mishra (BT/EE/79) 2006 Dr. D. Subbarao (MSc2/PHY/1972) 2009 for outstanding contributions in complexity theory for outstanding and seminal contributions in the for outstanding managerial contributions. and by developing a polynomial time algorithm for field of semiconductor and solid state devices. primality testing. Mr. Manoj Pratap Singh (BT/EE/1974) 2009 Mr. Rajiv Motwani (BT/CSE/83) 2006 for outstanding managerial contributions. Mr. (BT/CSE/2002) 2003 for outstanding contributions and academic for outstanding contributions in complexity theory achievements in the field of computer science and Mr. Shantanu Srivastava (BT/EE/1977) 2009 and by developing a polynomial time algorithm for engineering. for outstanding entrepreneurial contributions and primality testing. for promoting Indo-Vietnam relations. Mr. Ravinder Nath Akhoury (BT/EE/68) 2007 Mr. Nitin Sexena (BT/CSE/2002) 2003 for outstanding managerial career and ongoing Dr. Shreesh Jadhav (BT/PhD/CSE/1989/1995) 2009 for outstanding contributions in complexity theory contribution to the world of information technology. for dedicated service to humanity at large. and by developing a polynomial time algorithm for primality testing. Mr. Narendra Kale (MT/CSE/76) 2007 Dr. Udai P. Singh (BT/CE/1972) 2009 for excellence in entrepreneurship. for outstanding and all round contributions to the Mr. Suresh Pandey (BT/MME/65) 2004 field of environment and water resources. for outstanding and all-round contributions to the Dr. Rajiv Desai (BT/ME/82) 2007 steel industry of India. for outstanding contribution to research and Mr. Anil Kumar Chopra (BT/CHE/76) 2010 development. for outstanding entrepreneurial contributions in the Mr. Amitabh Srivastava (BE/EE/79) 2004 field of petroleum, software and energy, as well as for outstanding and phenomenal contributions Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (BT/CHE/82) 2007 service to society in promoting education. towards software development recognized by the for outstanding contributions and academic international community. achievements in the field of chemical engineering. Mr. Anupam Khanna (BT/EE/74) 2010 for outstanding professional achievements in the Mr. Satyendra K. Dubey (BT/CE/94) 2004 Mr. Raieev Chawla (BT/EE/84) 2007 fields of public policy and infrastructure for his honesty, integrity, dedicated service and for significant contribution to bring about e- management. upright conduct in public life (awarded governance revolution in the country. posthumously). Dr. Arun Kumar Ghosh (MSC2/CHM/81) 2010 Prof. Ashok Misra (BT/CHE/1968) 2008 for outstanding contributions and academic Mr. Ajay Kumar (PhD/AE/74) 2005 for outstanding managerial contributions and achievements in the field of discovery of drugs for for outstanding and phenomenal contributions to contributions to the field of chemical engineering. AIDS. the world of aviation industry. Dr. Ravi Seth (BT/ME/1968) 2008 Mr. David B. K. Thomas (BT/ME/77) 2010 Mr. Pawan Kumar Goenka (BT/ME/75) 2005 for outstanding technological and managerial for outstanding contributions and selfless service for outstanding and all-round contributions in the contributions. towards empowerment of women. field of automotive design, engine lubrication and tribology. Mr. Harsh Manglik (BT/ME/1970) 2008 for outstanding managerial contributions.

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for his outstanding contributions in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. This award was instituted by IIT Kanpur in the memory of Mr. Satyendra K. Dubey (BT/CE/1994/IITK) and his exemplary life and supreme . Mr. Dheeraj Pandey (BT/CSE/1997) 2015 for his outstanding enterprising skills to operate one of the world's most promising enterprises in the field of development and delivery of invisible computing 2005 Arvind Kejriwal (BT/ME/89/IITKGP) infrastructure comprising storage, computation and virtualization. 2006 Ganesh P. Bagaria (BT/MT/EE/IITK/82/85) Mr. Yadu Pati Singhania (BT/CE/1977) 2015 for his outstanding enterprising skills 2008 Anubrotto Kumar Roy (BT/MT/CHE/IITB/67/69) revolutionizing the white cement industry in the country. 2009 Lalit Kishore Chaudhary (BT/ME/86/IITK) Mr. Sudhir Prasad (BT/ME/1979) 2015 for his management excellence in public governance. Vijay Saluja (BT/CE/68/IITD) Ms. Veena Sahajwalla (BT/MME/1986) 2015 for her outstanding contributions in the field of 2010 Shailesh Ramkumar Gandhi (BT/CE/69/IITB) materials processing for sustainable development.

Prof. Thirumalai Venkatesan (MSc-2Yr/PhY/1971) 2011 Sanjeeb Kumar Patjoshi (MT/EE/88) for his outstanding contributions in Physics and Materials Science. 2015 2012 Rahul Sharma (BT/EE/87) Mr. Vishnu Agarwal (BT/EE/1966) 2016 for his Outstanding Entrepreneurship. 2013 Trilochan Sastry (BT/IITD/1980) Mr. Arvind Pradhan (BT/ME/1974) 2016 for his outstanding enterprising skills and social service. 2015 Kuldip Narayan (BT/ME/IITK/2000)

Dr. Uday B Desai (BT/EE/1974) 2016 for his outstanding Academic and Professional 2016 K. M. Abraham (MT/IME/1989) Excellence.

Dr. Anurag Kumar (BT/EE/1977) 2016 for his Outstanding Academic and Professional Excellence.

Mr. Ram S. Sharma (MSC2/MTH/1977) 2016 for his management excellence in application of information technology in governance.

Mr. Prabhat Singh (BT/CE/1980) 2016 for his professional excellence in running an important PSU sector efficiently and effectively.

Mr. Sanjiva K Lele (BT/ME/1980) 2016 for his Academic Excellence in Outstanding Contributions to Fluid Mechanics Research.

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Chief Guest Chief Guest

Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran Professor C. D. Mote, Jr. Chairman, TATA SONS President of National Academy of Engineering

Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran is Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the holding company and promoter of more than 100 Tata operating Professor C. D. Mote, Jr. is President of the National Academy of Engineering and Regents Professor on leave fromthe University of companies with aggregate annual revenues of more than US$100 billion. He joined the board of Tata Sons in October 2016 and was Maryland, College Park. Dr. Mote earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees at the University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering appointed Chairman in January 2017. between 1959 and 1963. After a postdoctoral year in England and three years as an assistant professor at the Carnegie Institute of Mr. Chandrasekaran also chairs the Boards of several group operating companies, including Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Indian Technology in Pittsburgh, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in mechanical engineering for the next 31 years. He and his students Hotels and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - of which he was chief executive from 2009-17. investigated the dynamics, stability, and control of high-speed rotating and translating continua as well as biomechanical problems emanating The Tata group companies include 29 publicly-listed corporations with a combined market capitalisation that exceeded US$120 billion at the from snow skiing. He coined the area called dynamics of axially moving materials encompassing these systems. Fifty-eight PhD students start of 2017. earned their degrees under his mentorship. His appointment as Chairman followed a 30-year business career at TCS, which he joined from university. Mr. Chandrasekaran rose through the ranks at TCS to become CEO and managing director of the leading global IT solution and consulting firm. At Berkeley, he held an endowed chair in mechanical systems and served as chair of the mechanical engineering department from 1987 to Under his leadership, TCS generated total revenues of US$16.5 billion in 2015-16 and consolidated its position as the largest private sector 1991 when the National Research Council (NRC) ranked its graduate program effectiveness highest nationally. Because of his success at employer in India and the country's most valuable company. TCS has also been placed among the 'Big 4' most valuable IT services brands raising funds for mechanical engineering, in 1991 he was appointed vice chancellor at Berkeley expressly to create and lead a $1 billion worldwide, ranked as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Forbes and recognised as a Global Top Employer by the Top capital campaign for the campus that ultimately reached $1.4 billion. Employers Institute across 24 countries. In 1998, Dr. Mote was recruited to the presidency of the University of Maryland, College Park, a position he held until 2010 when he was Mr. Chandrasekaran embedded a culture of customer-focus and innovation at TCS. appointed Regents Professor. His goal for the university was to elevate its self-expectation of achievement and its national and global position In addition to his professional career at Tata, Mr. Chandrasekaran was also appointed as a director on the board of India's central bank, the through proactive initiatives. During his tenure, the number of Academy members among the faculty tripled, three Nobel laureates were Reserve Bank of India, in 2016. He has also served as the chairperson of the Information and Communication Technology Industry Governors at the World Economic Forum, Davos, in 2015-16. recognized, and an accredited school of public health and a new department of bioengineering were created. He also founded a 130-acre research park next to the campus, faculty research funds increased by 150%, and partnerships with surrounding federal agencies and with Mr. Chandrasekaran is an active member of India's bilateral business forums including USA, UK, Australia and Japan. He served as the chairman of NASSCOM, the apex trade body for IT services firms in India in 2012-13. international organizations expanded greatly. The number of students studying abroad tripled, and he created an annual open house day that has attracted over 100,000 visitors per day, founded a charitable foundation for the campus whose board of trustees launched a $1 billion His business leadership has been recognised by several corporate and community organisations and he has received numerous awards, including: capital campaign that reached its goal. Ø Business Leader of the Year at the ET Awards for Corporate Excellence 2016. Dr. Mote's recognitions include the NAE Founders Award, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Medal, and the Humboldt Prize of Ø CNBC TV 18 - 'Indian Business Icon' 2014. the Federal Republic of Germany. At the University of California, Berkeley, he was honoured with the Distinguished Teaching Award, Ø CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2014 (business category). Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, Berkeley Citation, and Excellence in Achievement Award. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Ø Best CEO for 2013 and 2014 by Business Today. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Ø Best CEO 2010-15 Institutional Investor's Annual All-Asia Executive Team rankings. Mechanics, the Acoustical Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He holds three honorary Mr. Chandrasekaran has been awarded several honorary doctorates by leading Indian and international universities. He attended the doctorates and two honorary professorships. Regional Engineering College, Trichy, , where he completed a master's degree in computer applications before joining TCS in 1987. Mr. Chandrasekaran is an avid photographer and a passionate long-distance marathon runner. In April 2017 he ran the London Marathon, thereafter completing the World Marathon Majors. The World Marathon Majors include the marathons in New York, Boston, Chicago, Berlin, Tokyo and London. Mr. Chandrasekaran born in 1963, he lives in , with his wife Lalitha. Their son, Pranav, is at university.

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First 31 Oct 1965 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Twenty-Seventh 27 May 1995 Dr. R. A. Mashelkar President of India Director, National Chemical Lab. Pune. Second 8 Mar 1967 Dr. D. S. Kothari Twenty-Eighth 20 May 1996 Dr. S. M. Datta Chairman, University Grants Commission Chairman, Hindustan Lever Ltd., Mumbai Third 3 Mar 1968 Shri Twenty-Ninth 25 May 1997 Shri Deputy Prime Minister President, J. K. Organization, New Delhi Fourth 24 Nov 1968 Shri Y. B. Chavan Thirtieth 31 May 1998 Shri Mukesh D. Ambani Union Minister of Home Affairs Vice-Chairman & MD Reliance Indu. Ltd. Fifth 7 Nov 1969 Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao Thirty-First 29 May 1999 Shri Union Minister for Education Chairman & MD, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Sixth 26 Oct 1970 Shri Kenneth B. Keating Thirty-Second 23 May 2000 Dr. Chairman, Institute of Rural Management, Anand Ambassador of USA to India Thirty-Third 28 May 2001 Dr. Seventh 15 Feb 1972 Shri Padampat Singhania Union Minister for Human Resource Development Chairman, Board of Governers, IIT Kanpur Thirty-Fourth 28 May 2002 Shri Arun Shourie Eighth 16 Feb 1973 Shri M. M. Suri Union Minister for Disinvestments Managing Director, Escorts Ltd. Thirty-Fifth 30 May 2003 Professor C. N. R. Rao Ninth 3 Oct 1973 Dr. H. N. Sethna Honorary President of JNCASR, Bangalore Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission Thirty-Sixth 28 May 2004 Dr. Tenth 21 Feb 1976 Shri P. N. Haksar Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission Thirty-Seventh 31 May 2005 Dr. K. Kasturirangan Eleventh 4 Apr 1977 Dr. Raja Ramana Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay Thirty-Eighth 5 Jun 2006 Shri Twelfth 7 Apr 1979 Dr. Triguna Sen Minister for Science & Technology Former Union Minister for Education Thirty-Ninth 1 Jun 2007 Shri G. Madhavan Nair Thirteenth 15 May 1980 Dr. R. K. Asundi Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization Former Professor, Banaras Hindu University Fortieth 30 May 2008 Professor Shih Choon Fong Fourteenth 7 May 1981 Dr. P. K. Kelkar National University of Singapore Former Director, IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay Forty-First 30 May 2009 Mr. Jeet S. Bindra Fifteenth 20 May 1982 Dr. (Mrs.) A. Chatterjee President, Chevron Global Manufacturing Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta Forty-Second 3 Jul 2010 Dr. Manmohan Singh Sixteenth 17 May 1983 Dr. B. V. Sreekantan Prime Minister of India Director, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay Forty-Third 28 May 2011 Prof. P. Balram Seventeenth 13 Mar 1985 Giani Zail Singh Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore President of India Forty-Fourth 2 Jun 2012 Dr. E. Shreedharan Eighteenth 23 May 1985 Dr. A. S. Paintal Principal Adviser, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Director, V. Patel Chest Institute, New Delhi Forty-Fifth 5 July 2013 Shri Nineteenth 23 May 1986 Prof. M. G. K. Menon President of India Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister Forty-Sixth 17 June 2014 Dr. Johannes Georg Bednorz Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1987) Twentieth 23 May 1987 Dr. Sam G. Pitroda IBM Zurich, Switzerland Advisor, Center for Development of Telematics, New Delhi Dr. K. Radhakrishnan Twenty-First 24 May 1988 Shri V. Krishna Murthy Chairman, ISRO Chairman, SAIL Forty-Seventh 23 Feb 2015 Shri Adil Zainubhai Twenty-Second 23 May 1990 Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Chairman, Quality Council of India Director, Defense R & D Lab., Hyderabad Forty-Eighth 07 June 2015 Dr. Tan Chorh Chuan Twenty-Third 7 Jun 1991 Dr. A. P. Mitra President, National University of Singapore Director General, CSIR, New Delhi Mr. B Prasada Rao Twenty-Fourth 22 May 1992 Dr. D. S. Deodhar Chairman & Managing Director of President, Applied Electronics Ltd., Bombay Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. Twenty-Fifth 28 May 1993 Dr. Abid Husain Forty-Ninth 27 June 2016 Dr. Satish K. Tripathi Vice Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation President of the University at Buffalo Twenty-Sixth 23 May 1994 Dr. Jamshed J. Irani Forty-Ninth 28 June 2016 Prof. Managing Director, TISCO, Jamshedpur Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog

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“If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs” ― Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

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# M.Sc. part of M.Sc.-Ph.D. dual degree programme

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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Second Major Dept. AE BSBE CHE CE CSE EE ME MSE CHM ECO MTH PHY Total Sl. YEAR Convocation HELD ON B.Tech. BS BT-MT Double BS-MS BT-MS BS-MBA BT-MBA MS-PD MSc MSc DIIT VLFM MBA MDES MEM MPHIL M.Tech Ph.D. TOTAL No. No. (DD) Major (DD) (DD) (DD) (DD) (DD) (Int) (2Yr) PROG. ------1 1965 I 31.10.1965 66 ------5 71 Parent Department ------

2 1967 II 08.03.1967 85 ------13 ------18 12 128 BT AE - - - - 1 ------1 2 3 1968 III 03.03.1968 83 ------17 ------24 22 146

BSBE - - - - - 1 ------1 4 1968 IV 24.11.1968 164 ------28 ------71 16 279

5 1969 V 07.11.1969 197 ------26 ------120 37 380 CHE - - - - 1 ------1 6 1970 VI 26.10.1970 234 ------30 ------92 42 398

CE - - - - 2 1 ------3 7 1972 VII 15.02.1972 243 ------32 ------175 60 510

CSE ------8 1973 VIII 16.02.1973 269 ------35 ------125 33 462

9 1973 IX 03.10.1973 183 ------26 ------98 25 332 EE ------10 1975 NO CONVOCATION 17.05.1975 258 ------38 ------152 77 525 ME - - - - 1 ------1 11 1976 X 21.02.1976 323 ------30 ------107 42 502

12 1977 XI 04.04.1977 182 ------7 29 ------171 72 461 MSE - - - - 3 ------3 13 1978 NO CONVOCATION 16.06.1978 173 ------12 20 ------35 11 251 BS CHM ------14 1979 XII 07.04.1979 172 ------15 30 ------271 105 593

15 1980 XIII 15.05.1980 368 ------12 56 ------5 147 74 662 ECO ------1 - 1 16 1981 XIV 17.05.1981 217 ------5 23 ------10 138 60 453 MTH ------17 1982 XV 20.05.1982 255 ------8 26 ------9 160 65 523 PHY ------18 1983 XVI 17.05.1983 221 ------10 20 ------20 153 45 469

19 1984 COMMENCE MENT 22.05.1984 203 ------13 49 ------265 Total - - - - 8 2 - - - - 1 1 12 20 1985 XVII SILVER JUBILEE 13.03.1985 20 ------2 8 ------312 94 436 21 1985 XVIII SILVER JUBILEE 23.05.1985 266 ------8 40 ------70 10 394 22 1986 XIX 23.05.1986 224 ------6 32 ------206 44 512

23 1987 XX 23.05.1987 221 ------14 32 ------212 52 531

24 1988 XXI 24.05.1988 216 ------8 34 ------182 45 485 25 1989 NO CONVOCATION 23.05.1989 234 ------14 38 ------254 44 584

GRADUATION DATA OF DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM WITH 26 1990 XXII 23.05.1990 201 ------19 45 ------204 51 520

27 1991 XXIII 07.06.1991 225 ------19 16 ------213 44 527

POST GRADUATE PART IN A DIFFERENT DISCIPLINE - 2017 28 1992 XXIV 22.05.1992 230 ------25 48 ------176 28 507

29 1993 XXV 28.05.1993 229 ------23 27 ------220 48 547

PG PART IN AE BSBE CHE CE CSE EE ME MSE CHM ECO MTH PHY PSE NET EEM M.DES IME MBA Total 30 1994 XXVI 23.05.1994 250 ------35 38 3 ------7 -- 200 62 595

31 1995 XXVII 27.05.1995 265 ------29 34 5 ------1 -- 227 51 612 STREAM ------32 1996 XXVIII 20.05.1996 277 ------24 30 4 ------211 50 596 UG PART IN ------33 1997 XXIX 25.05.1997 239 ------30 35 7 ------230 66 607 ENGG. AE ------1 ------1 34 1998 XXX 31.05.1998 217 ------23 38 7 ------262 53 600 35 1999 XXXI 29.05.1999 277 ------27 46 5 ------278 46 679 BSBE ------1 - 1 36 2000 XXXII 23.05.2000 266 ------27 37 3 ------297 58 688

CHE ------37 2001 XXXIII 28.05.2001 308 ------23 32 2 ------327 31 723

38 2002 XXXIV 28.05.2002 304 ------21 57 4 ------258 41 685 CE - 1 - - - 1 ------39 2003 XXXV 30.05.2003 370 ------24 36 2 -- 31 ------318 39 820 CSE ------1 ------1 40 2004 XXXVI 28.05.2004 337 ------27 47 -- -- 28 ------113 45 597 EE ------41 2005 XXXVII 31.05.2005 280 ------27 69 -- -- 28 10 -- -- 355 61 830 ------42 2006 XXXVIII 05.06.2006 329 22 ------35 75 -- 48 17 369 42 936 ME - - 1 - - 1 ------43 2007 XXXIX 01.06.2007 306 41 ------37 85 -- 32 14 312 86 903 MSE 1 - - - - 1 ------44 2008 XXXX 31.05.2008 334 60 ------40 70 -- -- 27 6 -- -- 356 101 994

SCIENCE CHM ------1 1 45 2009 XLI 30.05.2009 299 52 ------39 68 -- -- 45 12 -- -- 320 96 931 46 2010 XLII 03.07.2010 313 117 ------60 86 32 52 18 -- -- 386 131 1195 ECO ------47 2011 XLIII 28.06.2011 313 100 ------67 103 59 43 8 -- -- 242 103 1038 MTH ------48 2012 XLIV 02.06.2012 340 123 ------75 95 -- 34 26 21 -- -- 320 101 1135 49 2013 XLV 05.07.2013 359 138 76 118 - 33 48 12 - - 411 132 1327 PHY ------50 2014 XLVI 18.6.2014 462 112 ------88 111 - 37 46 12 - - 284 121 1273 Total ------3 1 1 - - - - 1 1 7 51 2015 XLVII 23.2.2015 71 94 ------13 10 - - 5 14 - - 230 73 510 52 2015 XLVIII 07.6.2015 359 24 52 ------104 95 - 38 52 9 - - 124 63 920

53 2016 XLIX 27.6.2016 499 49 251 12 66 6 1 4 21 125 - 39 33 37 - - 513 151 1807 28.6.2016 54 2017 XL 15.6.2017 515 72 142 12 62 5 1 -- 10 02 127 - 40 33 24 - - 339 160 1544 16.6.2017

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BT-MT BS-MS BS-MT BT-MS BS-MBA BT-MBA MS- DIIT/MEM/ M.Tech./ Double M.Sc M.Sc Ph.D Total DEPT B.Tech. BS (Dual (Dual (Dual (Dual (Dual (Dual PD# M.Phil/ MBA/ Major (5Yr) (2 Yr) Degree) Degree) Degree) Degree) Degree) Degree) (Dual) VLFM M.Des.

Aerospace Engg. 729 2 138 1 714 93 1677

Biological Scs. and 253 2 6 1 139 73 474 Bioengg.

Chemical Engg. 2009 3 152 1159 180 3503

Civil Engg. 1670 5 168 4 1 1592 251 3691

Design Programme - 217 - 217

Computer Sc. & Engg. 1258 1 259 1 1128 58 2705

Earth Sciences 10 2 12

Economic Sciences 34 1 47 131 - 1 214

Electrical Engg. 3368 3 264 42* 2503 320 6500

Engg. Science- 1 1 Mechanics Environmental Engg. & 244 - 244 Mgt.

Mechanical Engg. 2762 1 274 2 1737 250 5026

Materials Science & 1826 4 21 2 919 132 2904 Engg.% NOSTALGIA 08** 540 Industrial & Mgt. Engg. 47 1485 312$ 578@ Photonics Science 156 - 156 Engg.%

Materials Science Prog. 402 44 446

Nuclear Engg. & Tech. 217 12 229

Chemistry 17 15 1 260 836 04*** 697 1830

Mathematics# 71 1 51 385 552 07*** 351 1418

Physics 23 1 15 375 742 14 07*** 406 1583

Statistics 42 383 20 445

Humanities & Social 06*** 248 254 Sciences

TOTAL 13876 145 24 1282 128 11 01 01 1193 2513 14 386 12255 3185 35014

#Including Math. & Sc. Computing *DIIT **MEM ***M.Phil @MBA $VLFM #M.Sc.-2 Year degree awarded under MS-PD(Dual degree) Program % Earlier known as Materials & Metallurgical Eng. % Earlier know as Laser Technology Programme

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

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